Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Air launch space company Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled study plans for a pair of hypersonic flying testbeds that could be launched from the company’s very large carrier aircraft.

Japan has scheduled the fourth attempt to launch its latest cargo mission to the International Space Station for Sept. 21 at 2:15 p.m. EDT.

Startup Astro Aerospace plans to flight-test its prototype passenger-carrying unmanned aircraft at Toronto Markham Airport this week, after receiving a special flight operations certificate for the vehicle from Transport Canada.

The Air Force anticipates delivery of light attack aircraft within roughly 18 months of contract award.

Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory has been testing unmanned air and ground vehicles that can sniff out chemical contamination.

Lockheed's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared System will make up the first block of the missile warning constellation that will replace the current Space-based Infrared System.

Pratt & Whitney is offering to upgrade the vertical thrust component of Lockheed Martin F-35B's engine, offsetting the extra weight of proposed upgrades to the stealthy fighter’s mission systems.

Europe’s RemoveDEBRIS satellite has used a net to capture a deployed target simulating a piece of orbital debris.

AEROVIRONMENT has $8.9m U.S. Army contract for RQ-20B Puma AE II systems/support to Estonia.

This week the Air Force Association’s annual Air, Space and Cyber symposium is underway in National Harbor, Maryland.

BAE Systems Technology Solutions has been awarded a $9,695,000 firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery requirements contract for the F-16 Commercial Fire Control Computer (CFCC) repair program.

Delivery for the KC-46A was slated for Oct. 27 but the service is working with Boeing to determine whether this is still achievable.

On receipt of the first payments on Sept. 18, the company declared the contract, worth £5 billion ($6.6 billion) to BAE, effective.

The U.S. Air Force says early analysis indicates that so-called physiological events (PEs) among T-6 pilots are “extreme outliers.”

The European Defense Agency says Europe is facing a shortfall of up to 40 aerial refueling aircraft in 2025.

The company has developed a prototype of a next-generation belly-mounted camera tasked with identifying targets in the ground and in the air.

The flight tests will evaluate how the Cuda compares to the range and terminal phase maneuverability of the Raytheon AIM-120 Amraam.

Moscow says Israeli fighter jets used the flight of the intelligence-gathering Ilyushin Il-20 “Coot” as a cover while they attacked targets in Eastern Syria.

L3 Technologies is positioning itself to take a lead role as the U.S. military seeks to knit together the electronics on its existing weapons.

Airware, a company working on cloud software to manage drone operations and data that became a darling of the UAV-oriented startup scene, reportedly has closed its doors.

The company has spent £2 million ($2.6 million) on a new training facility in Lincoln, UK, that will triple the company’s training capacity for both cyber activities and electronic warfare.

Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa has signed a new agreement to fly on SpaceX's BFR along with six to eight artists of his choosing, in a flight targeted for 2023.

Fledgling firefighting company Seaplane Global Air Services has outlined plans to lease out waterbombing aircraft, especially the amphibious Beriev Be-200.

The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.

NASA is re-assessing plans for a pair of spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) to upgrade its solar power generation system with more efficient lithium ion power storage batteries.