Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Spain is taking a “Europe first” approach as it considers the future of its combat aircraft fleets.

NASA and Northrop Grumman have delayed until early Nov. 16 the launch of the company’s 10th resupply mission to the ISS because of bad weather.

A German national study into the country’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS) has concluded that a system of systems with a so-called command fighter at its heart is the best solution for Germany’s long-term combat aviation needs.

The potential new HASC leader says one of his top goals in the next Congress is to “reset” the Trump administration’s $1.2 trillion nuclear modernization plan.

DARPA is looking toward the next generation of ground-based boost-glide hypersonic weapon.

India’s heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk. 3, placed the sophisticated GSAT-29 communication satellite into orbit Nov. 14.

Chinese freight company SF Express plans to use pilotless Avic Y-5B biplanes, based on a 70-year-old Soviet design, in an air delivery setup to be running by 2023.

Russian central aerohydrodynamic institute TsAGI has assisted in development of a floatplane version of the Czech L-410UVP-E20 turboprop utility aircraft.

The Philippines expects to receive a batch of UH-1 Iroquois helicopter parts donated by Japan in early 2019.

South Korea is likely to require further Airbus A330 MRTT tankers following the completion of delivery of the first four aircraft next year.

Japanese engineers have verified a concept design for a stealth inlet as part of a technology acquisition effort for a proposed indigenous fighter.

Bangladesh’s air force has set out a vision for increased reliance on domestic industry in a bid to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers.

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.