Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A pair of back-to back cargo launches to the International Space station are slated this week.

A future fleet of USAF light attack aircraft could be fitted with an exportable datalink in a bid to boost interoperability with developing air forces.

House Armed Services Committee leadership members have appointed two people to lead the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

NASA plans to award a contract to Influit Energy to adapt its nanoelectrofuel (NEF) flow battery to electric aircraft propulsion.

DASSAULT has contract from France’s DGA to perform detailed definition study for future surveillance and maritime intervention aircraft.

On Tuesday morning in Washington Pentagon research chief Michael Griffin will discuss “Re-energizing the Missile Defense Enterprise” at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, has been awarded a $350,000,000 increase to an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) production support.

The first of two former British Royal Air Force Lockheed C-130J Hercules airlifters has been delivered to Bahrain.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reported the successful Pacific Ocean recovery of the HTV-7 Small Re-entry Capsule (HSRC).

Airbus Defense & Space is working toward a demonstration of in-orbit satellite manufacturing in 2022.

European defense procurement agency OCCAR has invited Airbus’s Germany-based business to be the prime contractor for the EuroMALE UAS.

Dassault Aviation has been awarded a contract to carry out detailed study work for a future maritime surveillance aircraft based on its Falcon 2000 LXS bizjet.

China’s air force boldly brandished four examples of a newly-developed missile for the first time inside the weapons bay of the country’s most advanced fighter.

Flyability, a Swiss startup developing collision-tolerant drones for operation in confined spaces, has raised $11 million in a Series A financing round.

U.S. Defense Undersecretary Mike Griffin is reconsidering the merits of missiles that use older, semi-active radar technology to home-in on targets.

A Japanese demonstrator fighter engine has been run to full thrust with no problems, a program official says.

India’s state-run space agency is preparing to launch its GSAT-29 high throughput communication satellite on a heavy-lift GSLV Mk. 3 on Nov. 14.

European and international partners are moving toward the launch of an experimental hypersonic glider in 2020.

LONGBOW LLC has $9m U.S. Army contract for laser and longbow Hellfire engineering services.

Nov. 13-14—2018 Canadian Aerospace Summit, Shaw Centre, Ottawa. For more information go to https://aerospacesummit.ca/

Thanks in part to regulatory reform efforts by the Trump administration, U.S. arms exports rose 13% during fiscal 2018 to reach $192.3 billion.

Euroconsult’s annual satellite market forecast is predicting a fast decrease in the average value of a satellite—minus 15% compared to last year’s study.

A Rocket Lab Electron booster lifted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on Nov. 11.

A pilot’s mistakes, a maintenance crew’s failures and a “culture and climate of complacency” are cited as factors in a USAF report on a fatal WC-130H crash.

The agency is ordering 22 AW169Ms, Leonardo announced Nov. 12.