Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

RHEINMETALL has Swedish armed forces contract to supply 47 MAN Military Vehicles for transporting RAYTHEON-made Patriot air defense systems.

Philippines defense minister Delfin Lorenzana has announced that the purchase of 16 S-70i Black Hawk helicopters will proceed.

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LEONARDO HELICOPTERS UK has five-year, £293m ($378m) contract to support UK Apache attack helicopters until its out-of-service date in March 2024.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has resumed science observations, following a voltage issue that interrupted operations by the 29-year-old space telescope’s primary imager on Jan. 8.

Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters Jan. 18 that the experimentation campaign will continue and details will be revealed in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 has resumed science observations.

A collaborative assessment concludes that samples of two Martian moons could be gathered robotically and returned to Earth without a biohazard threat.

With fewer than 70 days before Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU), aerospace still has no real sense of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

Singapore has announced it will acquire a small number of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to prepare for the eventual retirement of its F-16 fleet.

The few known details and the likely choice of engines suggest China’s new tactical bomber will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111.

Austrian aerospace provider FACC on Jan. 17 reaffirmed its financial guidance for its current fiscal year issued from last October.

Sounding rocket launches for NASA’s Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp have been continuing despite the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown.

DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL LLC has $18.5m U.S. Army contract for aviation field maintenance services.

Israeli drone delivery provider Flytrex has raised $7.5 million in a Series B investment round led by Benhamou Global Ventures.

The White House has resubmitted four nominations to fill vacancies on the board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

MDA and U.S. Northern Command will present a plan to accelerate efforts enhancing missile defense tracking and discrimination sensors, including addressing advanced missile threats.

The U.S. Air Force has started searching for ideas to improve the HGU-55/P helmet worn by F-15, F-16 and F-22 fighter pilots.

Switzerland has boosted the readiness of its air defense system to provide air policing of its airspace for 16 hr. a day, 365 days a year.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has said it will perform regular F-16 training flights in 2019 with the aircraft using biokerosene fuel.

Startup Relativity Space, which is developing a 3D-printed small satellite launcher, plans to fly from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 16.

Collins, a unit of United Technologies created in late 2018 by the merger of avionics maker Rockwell Collins and equipment supplier United Technologies Aerospace Systems, will provide flight-deck avionics and an enhanced vision system.

Dassault is set to begin delivering Rafale fighters to export customers India and Qatar this year.