Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Boeing F-15C may or may not receive the next-generation electronic warfare and self-protection system known as the BAE Systems Epawss.

Drone delivery provider Zipline has introduced a faster UAS as part of an overhaul of its logistics system to speed the supply of blood in Rwanda.

Moog and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences have agreed to co-funded work in support of adapting blockchain technology for additive manufacturing.

Drone delivery provider Zipline has introduced a faster UAS as part of an overhaul of its logistics system to speed the supply of blood in Rwanda.

The 230-ft (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 4:30 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40, kicking off the seventh of some 30 missions SpaceX plans to fly this year.

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NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $34.4m U.S. Army contract for maintenance and training on Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar, Counter-Unmanned Aerial System C2 system, and $27m to extend the current contract by 21 months.

A near-collision between a drone and a Boeing 777 on March 25 has prompted Air New Zealand to call for stricter regulations for drone operators.

For pilots flying the U.S. Navy F-35C carrier variant, nighttime carrier operations have been made more difficult by a “green glow” that obscures their vision.

Three days after the launch of GSAT-6A, India’s newest communication satellite, the country’s space agency has lost all communications with the spacecraft.

Boeing and Saudi Arabian Military Industries are forming a joint venture for spending and work on MRO services for military aircraft in Saudi Arabia.

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will invest up to $6.5 million in 25 advanced tech concepts to further future human and robotic space exploration.

The USAF has allocated $250 million in its fiscal 2019 budget to equip 20 aircraft types for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast Out position reporting.

Chinese space engineers observed the country’s largest orbital re-entry so far on April 2 when the Tiangong 1 space lab fell into the South Pacific Ocean.

The upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket SpaceX will make its first flight on a commercial mission for Bangladesh.

BOEING has $19.3m U.S. Navy contract to investigate/address events related to physiological episodes on the F/A-18A-F and EA-18G aircraft.

NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold installed two wireless communications antennas and replaced a camera assembly during an abbreviated 6-hr. March 29 spacewalk.

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SpaceX successfully deployed another batch of 10 of the communication company’s Next satellites into orbit on March 30.

India’s space agency has signed an agreement with the European Union to become part of a global data-sharing arrangement for Earth observation satellites.

The FCC has cleared SpaceX to operate a megaconstellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) to provide global, high-speed broadband services.

The U.S. government and Lockheed Martin must reduce F-35 costs or customers will have to make “tough decisions,” the U.S. Air Force Secretary says.

Stratospheric balloon startup World View Enterprises said March 29 it successfully closed a $26.5 million Series C round of financing.

Temporarily charging the exterior of an aircraft could significantly reduce the likelihood of a lightning strike, MIT researchers say.

The U.S. Navy is gearing up to declare its F-35C carrier variant ready for war in 2019.