Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The fortunes that could be made from small satellites remain highly uncertain, satellite industry analysts caution.

NASA’s Greased Lightning concept for a hybrid-electric, distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been licensed to a Virginia-based startup, Advanced Aircraft Co. (AAC).

Growth in global aerospace and defense (A&D) revenue slowed in 2016, according to Deloitte’s A&D financial performance study.

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $19.7m U.S. Navy contract for MH-60 aircraft spare parts.

A U.S. Marine Corps KC-130 transport aircraft crashed in a field in LeFlore County, Mississippi, on July 10 at about 4 p.m. CDT, killing all 16 people aboard.

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The U.S. Air Force's investigation determined the fire was caused by an unusually strong tailwind as the pilot began to rev up the engine.

The U.S. Air Force is developing tools to defend against small, commercial unmanned aerial systems but lacks the legal authority to use them.

Newly recapitalized space launch vehicle developer Firefly has emerged from last year’s financial collapse to reveal first details about plans to develop a larger, more capable version of the company’s original Alpha rocket.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears as a swirling mass of cedar red in the first images released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI).

Lockheed Martin has sent a preliminary response to Japan’s request for information on options for a fighter to replace the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries F-2 in the 2030s.

Made In Space, the Silicon Valley-based 3-D printing startup, has added a third feed stock to its additive manufacturing activities aboard the International Space Station.

India plans to launch a backup Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft in August to replace the ailing IRNSS-1A satellite, which has seen all three of its rubidium atomic clocks fail.

ORBITAL ATK has $53.6m U.S. Army contract for precision guidance kit M1156.

Tuesday morning the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) will consider the nomination of Richard Spencer to be the next secretary of the U.S. Navy.

Digirad Corp., Poway, California, has been awarded a maximum $100,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for computed tomography imaging equipment devices.

Kratos Defense is calling on engine manufacturers to develop inexpensive, limited-life powerplants for a new generation of low-cost unmanned combat aircraft and cruise missiles.

NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft carried out the closest approach ever to Jupiter’s turbulent Great Red Spot late July 10.

The total cost to procure Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has risen by nearly seven percentage points compared to last year, largely because the U.S. government opted to buy aircraft at a slower rate, according to the Pentagon’s most recent estimate.

The company will not comment on specific prospects or national requirements, but the scheduled stops of the aircraft indicate where Airbus expects it has chances of making sales: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea.

Service officials who led the recent Air Superiority 2030 study on future fighters say the next air superiority jet the Air Force buys will need to balance stealth against other attributes.

The U.S. government conducted a successful intercept July 11 with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile defense system.

The Thai cabinet has approved the purchase of an additional eight Korean Aerospace (KAI) T-50 jet trainers that will supplement four ordered two years ago.

In the search for the root cause of a recent spike in hypoxia-like cockpit incidents, the U.S. Navy is beginning to look more closely at the quality of the air that comes off the T-45 Goshawk’s engine and feeds into the oxygen generator system.