Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has carried out a series of successful weapon drops with its Anka medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle.

A year after the fatal loss of a CHC Helikopter Service-operated Airbus H225, Norwegian air accident investigators are still working to find the root cause.

Aurora Flight Sciences has flown a quarter-scale model of the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft it is developing for the Uber Elevate urban air-transport network.

Mooney International has partnered with Carter Aviation Technologies to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the Uber Elevate network, which is based on Carter’s slowed-rotor/compound (SR/C) configuration.

AirspaceX, a new company set up by design house Detroit Aircraft, is developing a tailsitting electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can carry modular payloads.

China has achieved its first in-orbit transfer of propellant, from the Tianzhou 1 freighter to the Tiangong 2 orbital laboratory.

PhilJets Group will be the Philippines’ largest operator of Airbus helicopters, following its new order for one twin-engine H145 and two single-engine H130s.

SPACE DATA ASSOCIATION elected Mark Dickinson new chairman, succeeding outgoing chairman Mark Rawlins.

The UK House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee has concerns about the UK defense ministry’s £178 billion ($229 billion) defense equipment and support plan.

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Development of new engine for the U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache could grind to a halt if Congress cannot reach a budget deal for fiscal 2017.

Exploration Mission-1, NASA’s planned first flight of its heavy-lift Space Launch System and Orion deep-space crew capsule, won’t make its target launch date of November 2018.

Airbus has begun negotiations with A400M customers in a bid to resolve the airlifter’s ongoing delays and technical issues.

Saab’s Gripen looks likely to become Bulgaria’s next fighter after a government working group gave the aircraft a thumbs up.

NASA’s Inspector General has found the agency lagging in efforts to develop a new spacesuit for future human deep-space missions.

The U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center has more data scientists under its purview than the Air Force Research Laboratory, the center’s commander told MRO Americas.

The Cassini spacecraft emerged apparently unbattered from its first ring plane crossing at Saturn.

AVX has proposed a Cobra-style low-drag airframe coupled with the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor’s plug-on wing and rotor system as an armed Osprey escort.

Aerospace component and structures manufacturer GKN Aerospace is looking toward Asia for its next major acquisition, chief executive Kevin Cummings says.

India is working to increase the number of its satellite launches to 12 per year from about the current eight.

Getting most or all NATO members to spend the alliance goal of 2% each of GDP on defense would be laudable, but do not expect that to translate into too much revenue for the defense industry, an analyst says.

BOEING and SAAB completed 1-hr. first flight of second production-ready T-X trainer.

Intelsat S.A. has signed a deal with Morocco’s INWI to integrate satellite services from the Intelsat Epic platform into INWI’s network.

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NASA’s associate administrator for science is overseeing an effort to shape ongoing agency programs to line up with a renewed emphasis on discovering extraterrestrial life.