A U.S. company is set to purchase a fleet of former British Royal Air Force (RAF) Lockheed L-1011 Tristar tanker aircraft with the aim of offering civilian refueling services to the U.S. Navy and NATO air arms.
Insitu’s commercial arm Inexa Solutions is offering aerial reconnaissance services for fighting wildfires using its ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Aug. 15-20—MAKS 2017 - International Aviation and Space Salon, Zhukovsky, Russia. For more information go to http://www.spaceagenda.com/future-events/
LOCKHEED MARTIN completed integration of Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, satellite, based on company’s A2100 bus. Next is final assembly and testing; launch in Q2 2018. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has $ 9m U.S. Army contract for basic research in quantum computing. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $12.9m U.S. Army contract for Squad X Experimentation program to design, develop, and validate system prototypes for a combined-arms squad.
Northrop Grumman has won a U.S. Air Force contract to upgrade the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (J-Stars) fleet's radio terminals to be able to better track threats on the move.
The U.S. Army’s 110-lb. experimental electro-optical imaging satellite is heading toward the International Space Station after taking off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 14.
President Donald Trump on Aug. 14 kicked off a formal inquiry into alleged Chinese intellectual property theft, highlighting major defense prime contractor Raytheon in the process.
Airbus Helicopters has issued a safety bulletin to operators of the Tiger attack helicopter following the crash of a German Army-operated aircraft in Mali in late July.
As NASA turns its human exploration focus toward deep space, the agency is searching beyond traditional borders for the innovation needed to achieve its challenging aspirations of establishing and sustaining a human presence in the lunar and Martian environs.
The new director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency has vowed to set realistic expectations for how quickly new counter-missile technologies can be introduced.
Bahrain is to become a C-130J Hercules operator after purchasing two former British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft through a government-to-government deal.
The Pentagon has announced that Lockheed Martin won the new 10-year, $8 billion U.S. Special Operations Command’s logistics and sustainment support program.
The sudden advances in North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile capability have been made possible by illicit access to the Soviet-era RD-250 liquid-propellant engine, a missile expert has claimed.
Northrop Grumman is using an X-47B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) as a flying testbed for air refueling systems in support of its proposal for the U.S. Navy’s upcoming MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker contest.
AIRBUS completed testing of MetOp-C polar-orbiting meteorological satellite payload module and delivered it to Toulouse for coupling with service module. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $45.5m U.S. Air Force contract for GPS military code (M-Code) early use software enabling M-Code tasking, monitoring, and signal in space for current and future satellites. Work complete December 2019.
Kalyani Rafael Advanced Systems (KRAS) has embarked on India’s first private-sector defense subsystems manufacturing facility. KRAS, a joint venture between Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and India’s Kalyani Group, is part of the “Make in India” initiative to increase foreign direct investment while increasing employment for Indian workers. Israel and India have long had strong defense ties. This year, India has signed deals for the purchase of almost $2 billion of missiles from Israeli companies.
The directive comes after three Marines died in an MV-22 crash off Australia’s east coast Aug. 5. Last month, 15 Marines and one sailor were killed when their KC-130T crashed.
A Goddard-built cubesat is intended to test if a center with expertise in building large, expensive spacecraft can accomplish some big science in a small package.
