The U.S. government has approved the sale of three intelligence-gathering King Air 350ER aircraft to the Canadian military, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced Oct. 4.
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The Houston Airport System’s commercial spaceport license features a constraint—horizontal launches and landings only. But HAS seems willing to embrace this limitation.
Aerospace features high on the list of potential applications for technologies to be developed under the latest round of tech projects announced by the LIFT manufacturing institute.
Chinese state space industrial group Casc will begin testing a demonstrator methane-burning rocket engine using the expander configuration in November.
The U.S. Army’s selection eliminates rival bids by Northrop Grumman and newcomer Technovative Applications to develop a significantly improved radar system for Patriot.
BAE Systems has unveiled a next-generation threat management technology that can work with fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to dispense countermeasures.
Boeing has teamed with Robotic Skies, a brokered global network of more than 160 independently-owned and operated repair stations providing MRO on commercial UAVs, including to offer supply chain management and analytics.
The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $454 million, five-year contract to supply Wescam MX-10D sensor systems to upgrade the service’s RQ-7B UAVs.
SpaceX completed a picture-perfect nighttime recovery of the first Falcon 9 booster stage on the U.S. West Coast after launching the SAOCOM 1A radar-imaging satellite for CONEA, Argentina’s national space agency, from Vandenberg AB, California on Oct. 7.
Extant Aerospace has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and technical data rights from the Corona, California, operations of NavCom Defense Electronics.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will begin operational test and evaluation in November, which means the jets may be cleared for full-rate production in summer 2019.
Defying a potential threat of punitive measures by the U.S., India has signed a $5.43 billion contract with Russia to buy five advanced S-400 air defense systems.
Japan has decided to develop a new fighter, preferably with a foreign partner, rejecting the alternative of buying aircraft of existing but improved designs from British or U.S. companies, the Mainichi newspaper said.
Following a successful 17-hr. mission of the Mascot rover on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, France and Germany have agreed to send a follow-on spacecraft to Phobos, a Martian moon.
