Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceplane passed a significant milestone on May 1 with the first in-flight deployment of the feathering re-entry system.

Congressional appropriators unveiled a $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill on May 1 to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year, including $593 billion for the military.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to New Zealand.

Astrophysicist John Grunsfeld accepted the 2017 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement on April 28 with notes of inspiration, confidence and caution.

In the first foreign military sales request for the helicopter type, Slovakia wants its Model 429s equipped with Wescam MX-10 electro-optical cameras and additional communication and navigation equipment.

In the first foreign military sales request for the helicopter type, Slovakia wants its Model 429s equipped with Wescam MX-10 electro-optical cameras and additional communication and navigation equipment.

Harlow Aerostructures has acquired the businesses of Aerospace Holdings.

The two-seat version of the Avic Chengdu FC-1 export fighter is a combat aircraft as well as a trainer, the state manufacturer says following the first flight.

SpaceX launched its first satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office, the classified NROL-76, on May 1.

Wesco Aircraft Holding is suddenly changing CEOs and warning Wall Street of disappointing earnings to come.

Initial electrification of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell electric propulsion demonstrator is under way at Scaled Composites.

U.S. NAVY conducted four flight tests of the surface-to-air Standard Missile-6 Block I interceptor off the Hawaiian coast between April 6 and 13.

U.S. NAVY conducted four flight tests of the surface-to-air Standard Missile-6 Block I interceptor off the Hawaiian coast between April 6 and 13.

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Boeing has secured a $541 million contract for 15 heavy-hauling CH-47F Chinook rotorcraft for the Netherlands as it eyes other opportunities with Saudi Arabia, Israel and Germany.

The U.S. Army wants to move past its legal dispute with Leonardo Helicopters (formerly AgustaWestland) over the sole-source purchase of UH-72A Lakota helicopters from Airbus.

Ignore the European financial sector’s rumors, says the chief executive of Leonardo DRS, the U.S.-based branch of Italy’s national aerospace and defense champion—the company is not on the auction block, for now.

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has carried out a series of successful weapon drops with its Anka medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle.

A year after the fatal loss of a CHC Helikopter Service-operated Airbus H225, Norwegian air accident investigators are still working to find the root cause.

Aurora Flight Sciences has flown a quarter-scale model of the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft it is developing for the Uber Elevate urban air-transport network.

Mooney International has partnered with Carter Aviation Technologies to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the Uber Elevate network, which is based on Carter’s slowed-rotor/compound (SR/C) configuration.

AirspaceX, a new company set up by design house Detroit Aircraft, is developing a tailsitting electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can carry modular payloads.

China has achieved its first in-orbit transfer of propellant, from the Tianzhou 1 freighter to the Tiangong 2 orbital laboratory.

PhilJets Group will be the Philippines’ largest operator of Airbus helicopters, following its new order for one twin-engine H145 and two single-engine H130s.

SPACE DATA ASSOCIATION elected Mark Dickinson new chairman, succeeding outgoing chairman Mark Rawlins.