Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

U.S. rocket companies have until April 6 to bid on the next batch of U.S. Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) space launch missions.

Flight testing of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System in the F-35 will begin in September after the decision to speed up implementation.

Three small U.S. aerospace companies are forging ties to foster a commercial global optical communications network.

Ahead of the Pentagon’s fiscal 2019 budget release, six senators have thrown their support behind a re-engining of the Boeing B-52H.

ORBITAL ATK has $10.5m U.S. Army contract for 13,990 120mm tank training ammunition M865 recapitalized cartridges.

SpaceX postponed the planned launch of the GovSat-1 spacecraft by 24 hr. to allow for the replacement of a sensor on the Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared off its Cape Canaveral launch pad Jan. 31 to put a communications satellite into orbit for SES and Luxembourg.

The U.S. Air Force has suspended indefinitely all solo flights in the T-6A Texan II training aircraft due to Unexplained Physiological Events.

The MDA and Raytheon Missile Systems are refusing to confirm or deny reports that the latest Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 2A intercept test has failed.

Textron investors registered their disappointment with the company’s 2017 performance Jan. 31, trimming share prices by 2.5%.

Auditors have finally confirmed independent estimates of a £21 billion deficit facing the UK defense ministry’s 10-year, £180 billion equipment plan.

Boeing remains in “active” and “productive” discussions with Embraer and Brazil's government over a potential alignment, Boeing’s chief executive said Jan. 31.

SpaceX has been granted a five-year operators license from the FAA to launch communications satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.

The European Space Agency has selected Airbus as prime contractor to develop the next iteration of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.

The company this week released the first images of its T-X cockpit, revealing a 21st century knobless and switchless touchscreen large-area display.

The Defense Department’s new director of operational test and evaluation believes the F-35's new modernization plan is "not executable" within its planned timeline.

This week sees a flurry of international launch activity­—On Tuesday a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying SES-16/GovSat 1 is due to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $459.2m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract for additional Lot 10 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors (one-shot devices) and associated production support efforts.

The head of Airbus Helicopters Inc. has accused Leonardo of holding its UH-72 Lakota production line “hostage” with a new lawsuit.

The first sign of a Russian invasion of the Baltic states would be widespread disruption of the electromagnetic spectrum, according to a new report.

Leadership of Casis, which manages the U.S. National Laboratory assets of the ISS, is defending the nonprofit’s potential to nurture a growing LEO economy.

An MQ-1B Predator crew’s failure to follow a checklist procedure for a lost link caused the crash of the UAV in 2016, the U.S. Air Force said.

North Korea’s infrastructure and mechanisms for launching missiles are getting more and more sophisticated, a U.S. Air Force general says.

Airports have upped pressure on European authorities to adopt safety and traffic management rules to ensure the safe use of drones in and around airports.

Leonardo is mulling further divestments in a bid to focus more on its core fixed-wing, rotary-wing and defense electronics businesses.