Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

India’s state-run space agency wants to mount nine missions in the next eight months.

NASA and the Israeli Space Agency have signed an agreement that could lead to the testing of an astronaut radiation shielding vest.

Orbital ATK has given its rocket a name—Omega—and chosen a third-stage engine—Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10.

F-35 INTEGRATED TEST FLIGHT TEAM at Edwards AFB, CA, recently completed in-air deployments of Norwegian Drag Chute System, designed to rapidly decelerate Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35s when landing on icy runways.

Britain is mulling whether to mandate the use of transponders for all flying vehicles—manned and unmanned—as a means of enabling UAVs to safely share airspace.

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U.S. Air Force student and instructor pilots have reported eight additional physiological events in the T-6 Texan II trainer since March 1.

NASA’s planned April 16 launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was scrubbed hours from liftoff.

Stratolaunch Systems plans three more speed taxi tests of its twin-fuselage Stratolaunch aircraft before an initial test flight this summer,

Leonardo is demonstrating two British AW159 helicopters in Malaysia as part of a campaign to meet a long-outstanding requirement for anti-submarine rotorcraft.

In the Franco-German vision, the future air combat system includes a manned combat aircraft along with unmanned elements and would succeed the in-service Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon around 2040.

The attack included 105 long-range cruise missiles, fired from U.S. Rockwell B-1B Lancer bombers, British Panavia Tornado GR4s, French Dassault Rafale fighters and ships in the Mediterranean

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $209.7m U.S. Air Force contract for Large Aircraft Infrared Counter Measures (LAIRCM) equipment and support.

Sen. Armed Services Committee member Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is asking U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper for his views on the feasibility of assigning one of the future Security Forces Assistant Brigades (SFABs) to United States Africa Command (Africom).

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The Pentagon is laying the groundwork to dissolve the F-35 Joint Program Office.

Concerns over the Western aerospace sector’s access to titanium crested again April 13 following comments from a key Russian lawmaker.

The Admiral Kuznetzov carrier will return to service in 2021 after extensive repairs, the Russian defense ministry reported April 13, quoting Deputy Minister Yury Borisov.

The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer has appointed Jeff Boleng to lead the Department of Defense’s software acquisition strategy.

The introduction of the F-35 into the USMC inventory is driving a need for another adversary air training capability to keep pilots’ air combat skills honed.

COBHAM has KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD. contract to provide pilot oxygen system for the future KF-X fighter.

Australia has become the first country apart from the U.S. to receive Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings with software of the fully operational, Block 3F standard.

Japan’s industry ministry is backing a push by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to increase cooperation among the country’s aerostructure suppliers.

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The F-35 finally completed flight testing on April 11, 2018, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, but it still has to complete its "final exam."