Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The UK government is open to working with the U.S., “allies and like-minded friends” on developing a satellite navigation system.

India’s heaviest, most-advanced communication satellite, GSAT-11, has been successfully launched into space aboard a European Ariane 5 rocket.

The Italian Air Force has become the first European air arm to declare its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters operational.

Italy’s Leonardo has flown what it calls the latest iteration of its C-27J Spartan turboprop airlifter.

Wing, Google parent Alphabet’s drone delivery service, is setting up in Finland.

Polish defense minister Mariusz Blaszczak has urged the accelerated introduction of a new combat aircraft able to operate in the “anti-access and network-centric environments."

Indra plans to use UAVs to collect precision data for airport and terrain maps used in generating virtual environments for visual systems on flight simulators.

ITALIAN AIR FORCE chief Lt. Gen. Alberto Rosso announced F-35 Initial Operational Capability.

Tuesday will see the launch of SpaceX’s latest space station resupply mission, CRS-16, from Cape Canaveral.

The Boeing Co., El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $383,421,855 cost-plus-incentive-fee, award-fee contract for the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service.

The approval ends a 16-month delay to the start of the stealthy fighter's formal initial operational test and evaluation program.

The U.S. State Department has started a 60-day notification period to formally withdraw from the 31-year-old Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

Turkey not buying the Lockheed Martin F-35 will not have a “devastating impact” on the JSF enterprise, the head of U.S. Air Force international affairs said.

Operators of business jets are showing great interest in Israeli-developed systems that protect aircraft from shoulder-launched missiles.

White House policy loosening restrictions on the marketing and sale of armed UAS has not made it easier for the USAF to export the MQ-9, a service official says.

As concerns have grown that the exponential hike in computer power predicted by Moore’s law is slowing, the hype around quantum computing has risen.

The U.S. and Russia are preparing to restore long-term, six-person operations aboard the International Space Station by the end of February.

Airbus and Lockheed Martin have teamed up in the air refueling market to offer services for the USAF and other militaries and “conceptualize” a next-gen tanker.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has unveiled an AESA for a radar it is developing as part of a technology-acquisition effort for its next fighter.

Lockheed Martin has invested $4 million in a small Canadian firm seeking to stand up a first-of-its-kind commercial plant for lipid-to-hydrocarbon tech.

The USAF has not seen more pressure from lawmakers to slow roll weapon sales to Saudi Arabia after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi because relations were already strained, a service official says.

The U.S. Navy is seeking an autonomous cargo-unmanned aerial system and will host an experiment in March to transport a 50-lb. payload.

Spain plans to invest €25 million ($28 million) in a two-year study with France and Germany to define an early concepts for the manned fighter component of a Future Combat Air System.

President Donald Trump tweeted that the $716 billion the U.S. is spending on defense in fiscal 2019 is “crazy” and believes he can begin a dialogue to bring a “meaningful halt” to an “uncontrollable arms race.”

Osiris-Rex, NASA’s first-ever attempt at an asteroid sample return, reached the 1,640-ft.-wide near Earth object known as Bennu as scheduled on Dec. 3.