Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Lee Hudson
The DOD is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government and nongovernment issued devices, apps and services while in operational areas.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Launch broker Spaceflight has begun integrating 71 satellites for a dedicated smallsat mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this fall.
Defense

India and Arianespace will try again to launch the country’s heaviest comm sat, GSAT-11, on Nov. 30, almost four months after its first planned liftoff.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Astronomers have gathered occultation observations of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the target destination for a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Venezuela’s government says two explosive-laden multi-copters were used in an apparent failed assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Latvian Foreign Military Sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters.
Defense

BOEING has $186.2m U.S. Navy contract for F/A-18 aircraft spare parts.

German aerospace center DLR has tested food delivery by drone in hard-to-reach areas with flights of its SuperARTIS autonomous helicopter in the Dominican Republic.

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By Jen DiMascio
An outstanding issue with refueling U.S. Navy aircraft could cause yet another delay in Boeing's KC-46 tanker program.
Defense

By Graham Warwick, Angus Batey
Darpa has launched a project to mature flow control technologies to a level where they can be designed into next-generation aircraft to eliminate the need for moving control surfaces.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy is accepting white papers from industry to inform a next-generation propulsion and power technology assessment.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
A provision in the fiscal 2019 defense policy bill that blocks the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s to Turkey has cleared the full Senate and now awaits U.S. President Donald Trump’s signature.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Five veteran and three first-time NASA astronauts have been named to lift off on four history-making U.S. spaceflights that will end the long hiatus in the nation’s ability to launch astronauts on its own vehicles.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Aug. 2 that the funding would support the building of a production line in Ankara for the indigenous fighter program.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX recovery vessels gathered in the Pacific Ocean off Baja, California, late Aug. 3 to recover the company’s 15th Dragon cargo vessel.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
The Juno graphene research aircraft is a follow-on to the UCLan’s Prospero UAV, which first flew in 2015 with a graphene wing skin.

As part of preparations for the naval version of India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to begin aircraft carrier operations, the indigenous fighter has undergone tests to check its arrestor hook system.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $40.4 million sale to Kuwait for various Mk-series munitions to use on Boeing F/A-18s, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) says.
Defense

The development of an increasing number of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for maritime missions is prompting the Israeli navy and air force to ask with increasing seriousness whether a UAS carrier is needed.

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LOCKHEED MARTIN has $171.7m U.S. Navy contract for diminishing manufacturing sources redesign activities for F-35 Lightning II.

By Mark Carreau
NASA will prioritize avoiding another gap in U.S. human spaceflight activity over ending ISS support on a certain date, the agency's administrator says.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Air Force leaders, taken by the potential of reduced-cost space travel, are looking at ways expand cargo and transportation operations past the edge of the atmosphere within the next decade.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon has shifted roughly $683 million in fiscal 2018 internal funding to improve intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities by addressing combatant command gaps.
Defense