Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Ukraine and France have signed agreements that could see Kiev buying up to 55 helicopters from Airbus.

Tel Aviv-based Spacecom announced March 26 it will buy the Amos-8 geostationary telecommunications satellite from Maxar’s SSL.

Boeing HorizonX Ventures’ 10th and latest investment, its first outside the U.S., is in Australian startup Myriota.

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The launch of India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, has been postponed from April to October.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has developed and flown a heavily modified version of its Anka medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.

Raytheon is beginning work on a $575 million U.S. Army contract first won last June, now that a competitor’s repeated protests have been dismissed.

Turkey has carried out the first test firings of its indigenous family of air-to-air missiles with the aim of bringing the weapons into operation by 2020.

The Philippines is preparing to reintroduce ground-based air defense radar coverage.

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works unveiled a never-before-seen tailless UAV dubbed the X-44A at the Los Angeles County Air Show in California on March 24.

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Russia’s Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft with NASA’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was on course for a March 23 docking with the International Space Station (ISS)

AIRBUS formally delivered two A400M new generation airlifters to France and Germany on March 20 during ceremony in Seville, Spain.

The bill provides a total of $675.8 million for Wideband Global Satcom, including an additional $600 million to buy WGS-11 and WGS-12.

The spending bill signed by President Trump gives NASA far more than it asked for, but the space agency still lacks something money can’t buy: a new leader.

The head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration is “concerned” about an increasing threat of drone activities.

Sweden is experimenting with a passive radar system, a move that could see the technologies included in the requirements for future surveillance sensors.

Gen. Lori Robinson, commander of U.S. Northern Command and Norad, is concerned about the growing threat posed by Russia’s advanced cruise missiles.

China is developing a hypersonic wind tunnel capable of simulating speeds of Mach 10-25, state television says.

The unstable landing of an S-92 helicopter on a North Sea oil rig could have been prevented if exceedances on the helo's HUMS had been correctly identified.

China is planning new versions of the Avic Chengdu J-20 fighter, while also working to fully exploit its current capability.

On-demand helicopter service provider Fly Blade has raised $38 million in a Series B financing round that includes investment from Airbus Helicopters.

China’s abandoned Tiangong-1 space station is on its way to an uncontrolled fiery re-entry within a few days of April 1.

Congressional appropriators on March 22 unveiled a sweeping $1.3 trillion spending agreement that would fund the Department of Defense at $654.6 billion.

British defense supplier Ultra Electronics has named former BBA Aviation chief executive Simon Pryce as its new CEO beginning June 18.