Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

“Mars is a bridge too far,” counsels Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

President Donald Trump was spared heavy rain when he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, but poor weather thwarted what would have been the first military flyover for a presidential inauguration in 68 years.

The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder is taking advantage of a large gift and an ambitious new dean of engineering to help focus the state’s aerospace industry as a growing U.S. center for spaceflight innovation.

Despite Donald Trump’s vocal battering of two top Norwegian priorities, NATO and the F-35, Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide expects the newly minted U.S. president to continue longstanding support for both.

The first batch of Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missiles (JASSM) has been delivered to Poland for use on the country’s F-16 Fighting Falcon fleet.

The third of six U.S. Air Force missile warning satellites intended for geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) has successfully lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) RD-180-powered Atlas V rocket.

RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS has contract to deliver four transport-combat Mi-35M helicopters to Kazakhstan in 2018 through Rosoboronexport.

Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) is continuing to try to shut down a lucrative commercial airliner deal between Boeing and Iran Air.

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Astronauts and engineers are teaming up at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to assess how well they can read and respond to Orion cockpit displays as the spacecraft vibrates during ascent.

NASA’s Lockheed Martin X-56A aeroelastic research aircraft is ready to fly once the flooded lakebed at Edwards AFB, California, has dried and can again be used as a runway.

Aurora Flight Sciences soon will begin testing the transition between vertical and horizontal flight for its LightningStrike high-speed, hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft under development for Darpa.

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $140m U.S. Army contract for Battle Field Airborne Communication Node payload, operations and support through Jan. 23, 2018.

Funeral services for Eugene Cernan, commander of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission and the last human to journey to the lunar surface, is planned for Jan. 24.

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Spirit AeroSystems is looking to outsource some of its supply chain work here in a move to save $5 million to $7 million.

Made In Space and Axiom Space, two startups with innovative concepts for making money in orbit, have joined forces to collaborate on developing a private space station to manufacture low-noise fiber-optic cable and other products that require the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit.

Dozens of Western aerospace suppliers are on the verge of hiring thousands of workers and even establishing additive manufacturing facilities in Morocco.

Russia’s major aviation event, the MAKS air show, is likely to take place a month earlier than expected this year.

Safran Group and Zodiac Aerospace entered into exclusive negotiations for an acquisition of Zodiac by Safran, the companies said on Jan. 19.

Safran Group and Zodiac Aerospace entered into exclusive negotiations for an acquisition of Zodiac by Safran, the companies said on Jan. 19.

The latest U.S. government data derived from spacecraft and in situ measurement show the Earth warmed again to record levels in 2016.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX restored some of its luster Jan. 14 with the launch of a Falcon 9 for the first time since an on-pad explosion on Sept. 1.

The U.S. Air Force chief of staff endorses the idea of buying 300 low-cost, light-attack fighters for counterterrorism missions as a “great idea.”