Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

All 122 passengers and crew of a Myanmar air force Avic Y-8F 200 transporter are believed to have been killed after the aircraft crashed into the Andaman Sea on June 7.

Bell’s Model 505 JetRanger X has been awarded its long-awaited certification by the FAA.

The U.S. Air Force now believes Boeing won’t deliver the new tanker until “late spring of 2018,” or at least six months later than expected.

Chinese state space contractor CASC will lighten the first-stage motor of its Long March 11 launcher, increasing throw weight, and also seems to be planning a second and larger solid-propellant launcher.

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has completed its first foreign deployment of a Boeing P-8A Poseidon, preparing to assign the aircraft to Southeast Asian missions.

Chinese studies into reusable space launchers encompass powered and parachute landings, says the country’s main contractor for carrier rockets.

Britain’s Royal Air Force has taken delivery of its third and final RC-135 Rivet Joint signals-intelligence gathering aircraft.

BOEING has $8.7m U.S. Army contract for initial long-lead effort for MH-47G block II aircraft. Work complete August 2020.

On June 8 International Launch Services is scheduled to launch the 6,900-kg (15,100-lb.) EchoStar XXI communications satellite aboard a Proton Breeze M launch vehicle.

Bombardier has followed Boeing in lodging a protest over the U.S. Air Force’s decision to allow L3 Technologies to choose the next EC-130H Compass Call aircraft.

The flight is the first in a series of 17 test flights that will prove the Advanced Hawk's new aerodynamic configuration.

The 20-year policy statement rolled out on June 7 by Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan would increase military spending by 73% over the next decade to $32.7 billion by 2026-27.

Vice President Mike Pence, NASA and key members of Congress on June 7 announced the selection of seven men and five women to join the agency’s astronaut corps.

President Donald Trump’s bulldozer-style diplomacy regarding Qatar’s alleged financing of terror groups has left the fate of a military base, security ties and billions of dollars in weapons sales in doubt.

Chinese space engineers see navigation and landing stability among their main challenges in preparing for an historic unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon that they plan for 2018.

The order is the first step toward restarting operations on the oceangoing launch platform.

The Philippines is likely to order up to 12 more Korean Aerospace FA-50 light attack aircraft, taking the Philippine Air Force closer to its required numbers.

Northrop Grumman is getting to work on its fourth and potentially most important contract for the APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), after securing a $244 million award from the U.S. Air Force to retrofit 72 Lockheed Martin F-16s.

The European Union has created a defense research and development fund.

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B experimental spaceplane will return to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, the service reports.

EUROCONSULT estimates global space budgets totaled $62.2b in 2016, down 2% from previous year. Governments launched 75 satellites.

The finance ministries of Russia and Turkey are discussing the possibility of providing Ankara a loan for the purchase of S-400 missile systems.

TRAX International, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, was awarded an $111,489,021 modification (P00235) to contract W9124Q-07-C-0504.

Leonardo says it has entered exploratory discussions with the U.S. Army to investigate potential missions for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

Among experiments reaching the International Space Station on the first SpaceX Dragon capsule to revisit the orbiting outpost is a 3.5-kg experiment provided by the Beijing Institute of Technology that will study the effects of the in-space environment on genes.