Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Thierry Dubois
After satellite separation, an experiment was run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Safran Launchers that will help with Ariane 6 development.
Defense and Space

The Norwegian government has requested authorization to buy 12 additional Lockheed Martin F-35s in its 2017 national budget, allowing the country to participate in the last two years of a proposed international block buy.
Defense and Space

By Molly McMillin
Textron AirLand’s Scorpion jet, housed at Textron Aviation facilities in Wichita, is a potential military opportunity for Textron, Jefferies equity analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote in a note to investors.
Defense and Space

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
South Korea is planning to order more KEPD 350 Taurus standoff missiles to improve its capability to hit hardened targets in North Korea.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, the country’s state-owned aircraft producer, is closing its largest export deal to sell as many as 100 Super Mushshak training aircraft to Turkey.
Defense and Space

RAYTHEON flight-tested newest variant of Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam-ER) ...

The aviation actuator systems market is projected to grow to $1.09 billion by 2021 from $822.3 million in 2016 ....

View the Fleet Snapshot: U.S. Army Rotary-Wing Aircraft chart in PDF format.

The U.S. Army has set 2026 as its tentative end of the line for Boeing AH-64E Apache production.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and adjacent Patrick AFB, home to Cape Canaveral, released all but nonessential personnel on Oct. 5 as Hurricane Matthew churned through the Caribbean.
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The U.S. and 44 other nations on Oct. 5 signed on to a set of rules for the sale and use of armed drones.
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By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles, the manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, says it is confident that damage caused by a heavy landing on the aircraft’s second post-rebuild flight could be repaired in 3-4 months.
Defense and Space

Engineers at Blue Origin validated the “full-envelope” escape system for its six-seat suborbital passenger capsule with a successful abort test Oct. 5 16,000 ft. above the West Texas desert.
Space

GE Aviation is positioning itself to offer a 5,000-10,000 shp-class Future Affordable Engine Technology (FATE) turboshaft engine for the U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift program.
Defense and Space

Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) has received a new contract for the U.S. Army’s Alternate Concept Engine (ACE) program.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Triumph Group has sold its Newport News, Virginia, aerospace systems business unit and Force Measurement Systems division in San Diego to privately owned aerospace and automotive research company Calspan.
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By Jay Menon
India will launch Resourcesat 2A—the latest in a series of the country’s Earth observation satellites—in November, an attempt toward bolstering its weather prediction capabilities.
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By Marhalim Abas
Thailand’s air force has contracted for two additional Airbus H225M Caracal helicopters, with a further order possible.
Defense and Space

DASSAULT and RELIANCE GROUP formed Indian joint venture DASSAULT RELIANCE AEROSPACE to support ...

The U.S. Congress has adjourned until after the presidential election, having passed a temporary spending bill that funds ...

Brunswick Commercial & Government Products Inc., Edgewater, Florida, has been awarded a $72,000,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for ...

By Mark Carreau
The looming U.S. presidential election and the possibility of changes in Congress have many in the nation’s civil space community worried.
Space

By Jefferson Morris
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-R, is set to launch early next month.
Defense and Space

The U.S. Army has no interest in arming its Boeing AH-64E Apache gunships with the MBDA dual-mode Brimstone ground attack missile.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany and France are to partner on the creation of a special mission unit flying the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
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