Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Triumph Group’s long, hard slog to turn around its business remains tough, financial analysts said Nov. 8 after the supplier reported quarterly earnings results.

India has conducted the fifth test of its first indigenously developed subsonic cruise missile, Nirbhay.

Instead of being a Space Corps, Air Force Space Command will be modeled after the Army Air Corps of the early 1990s.

The $692 billion defense policy bill boosts missile defense and aviation accounts considerably compared to the White House’s May budget request.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $260m U.S. Navy contract to upgrade four Greek P-3Bs, extending service lives by 15,000 flight hours per aircraft.

Orbital ATK on Oct. 27 completed a structural acceptance test on the first motor high-strength composite case for the company’s Next Generation Launch (NGL) program.

The first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which is slated to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a trial run around the Moon, likely won’t occur until June 2020.

Germany appears to be favoring the Lockheed Martin F-35 as the successor to the Panavia Tornado.

An activist stock investor has targeted AeroVironment, one of the leading suppliers of small unmanned aircraft to the U.S. military.

Richard “Dick” Gordon Jr., an early record-setting NASA astronaut who walked in space and circled the Moon, has died.

President Donald Trump’s 13-day trip to Asia is being facilitated by dozens of U.S. military refueling tankers and cargo aircraft that regional operators say are needed in the Middle East to fight terrorists.

Malaysia has shifted its ambitions to seeking additional, secondhand Boeing F/A-18s Hornets, putting off a long-standing requirement for advanced new aircraft until the 2020s.

L3 TECHNOLOGIES has $210m U.S. Air Force contract for aircraft engineering, procurement and fabrication.

On Thursday morning NASA Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier will brief House Science, Space and Technology committee members on the state of the agency’s exploration systems.

On Thursday morning NASA Associate Administrator William Gerstenmaier will brief House Science, Space and Technology committee members on the state of the agency’s exploration systems.

Boeing has installed the last of 44 silo-based ballistic missile interceptors ordered by the former Obama administration as U.S. President Donald Trump requests funding from Congress for another 20.

The U.S. Air Force will use a Lockheed Martin-built fiber laser weapon for fighter aircraft self-protection in a live-fire demonstration expected by 2021.

The Swedish government is set to begin negotiations with the U.S. to purchase the Patriot air and missile defense system.

A Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2 airlifter will appear at the Dubai Airshow this month during a deployment classified as a flight training exercise but obviously also intended to market the type.

Aiming to mitigate effects from delayed Exploration Mission-1, the ascent abort test of Orion’s launch escape system will proceed, a program manager says.

Lockheed Martin would offer a dual-band, active electronically scanned array radar to replace the U.S. Army’s Raytheon-built MPQ-65 Patriot missile defense fire control radar.

The launch of the first NOAA/NASA Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft from Vandenberg AFB, California, has been delayed from Nov. 10 to no earlier than Nov. 14.

Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) is expected to complete deliveries of Thailand’s first batch of T-50 jet trainers by March.

Thailand is putting into service a locally made UAV, likely for patrol along its land borders.

Airbus has completed the long-awaited sale of its Vector Aerospace business to StandardAero.