Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

India is getting ready to launch its latest Earth observation satellite in the Cartosat-2 series by the end of this month.

Lockheed Martin has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force to develop a “threat radar” capable of mimicking foreign-made “medium-range, double-digit” surface-to-air missiles.

Indonesia may be close to finally signing a long-delayed deal to buy Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker multi-role fighters, as Russia offers the inducement of a local service center.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $413.8m U.S. Air Force contract for 360 Joint Air-to -Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) missiles and tooling and test equipment production. Work complete August 2020. THALES ALENIA SPACE has $130m, 3-year INMARSAT contract for new Global Xpress satellite, targeted for 2019 launch.

The U.S. Navy has reorganized the team set up to monitor the increasingly frequent “physiological episodes” being experienced by F/A-18 pilots. Now called the PMA-265 Physiological Episode Integrated Protect Team, officials from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and several Naval Air Systems Command units will look at each incident to determine a root cause. But in recent testimony to Congress, Vice Adm.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency plans to buy additional Ground-Based Interceptors and activate another two missile silos at Fort Greely, Alaska.

Orbital ATK has eased the margins on its Antares launch vehicle after the performance it turned in last fall with a new Russian-built rocket engine.

Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo said June 12 it will buy Moog’s in-space propulsion businesses in the UK and Ireland.

Germany is to move its Panavia Tornado reconnaissance aircraft from Turkey to Jordan after a long-running diplomatic spat with Ankara.

U.S. Air Force F-35As at Luke AFB, Arizona, are still temporarily grounded as a government-industry team works to find the root cause of five incidents of hypoxia-like symptoms on the new fighter in the last month.

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China’s main space launcher builder has loosened the schedule for flying a super-heavy rocket.

The Cygnus resupply spacecraft's mission-ending re-entry took place east of New Zealand just before 2 p.m. EDT, following a successful weeklong demonstration of commercial, multi-mission spacecraft activities away from the space station.

General Electric announced June 12 that Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt will retire this year and be succeeded by John Flannery, current president and CEO of GE Healthcare.

Airbus is testing a permanent solution to the power gearbox (PGB) problems that held up deliveries and affected flight operations of the A400M airlifter last year.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon almost $9 million to complete a flight-test demonstration of the latest network-enabled JSOW C-1 configuration.

NASA has issued a draft request for proposals for development of its Quiet Supersonic Transport low-boom flight demonstrator, starting the clock ticking toward first flight of the new X-plane in early 2021.

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INDIAN NAVY completed 10,000 flight hours with BOEING P-8I

The House Science Committee is trying to remove barriers to commercial space companies with a new bill, the American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017.

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The U.S. Air Force says flying operations at Luke AFB were canceled on June 9 “to synchronize operations and maintenance efforts toward safe flying.”

The U.S. Air Force says it will continue investing in the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR-1 engine as a potential replacement for the Russian-made RD-180.

“We expect France would be involved,” said Airbus’ head of military aircraft, Fernando Alonso, speaking to journalists here June 9. “It is clearly in our European interest to define one single system available to all."

Portugal looks set to become the first customer for Embraer’s KC-390 airlifter.