Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Enterprises, Lockheed Martin’s reseller of its LMH-1 Hybrid Airship, has signed an agreement to transport bulk liquid helium from sites in Africa.
Defense

Description : Sikorsky’s S-70 family of medium helicopters includes a series of maritime variants, including several with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilty.

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA has carried out air carriage and jettison trials of the new Sea Venom anti-ship missile from a Lynx helicopter.
Defense

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas V rocket by about one-third and will continue to drive down costs amid mounting competition from SpaceX.
Defense

A single-seat Lockheed Martin F-16C assigned to the U.S.
Defense

A multinational team of researchers studying data from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite believe they have identified two major warnings signs that together trigger destructive space weather events.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India’s state-run space agency has partnered with a local defense equipment maker to develop two spare Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
Malaysia appears to be finally making serious moves toward fulfilling a long-standing requirement for maritime patrollers.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
L3 Technologies has joined the race to provide unmanned underwater technology to the U.S. Navy with the acquisition of OceanServer Technology for an undisclosed amount.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Boeing has created an “innovation cell” to seek out potentially disruptive technologies and business models, both externally and internally.
Defense

China’s space organizations are beginning to plan science missions beyond Mars, even as its engineers prepare to return samples from the Moon to Earth this year, and from Mars by 2030.
Defense

France's $1.2 billion plan to invest in French Guiana has been deemed insufficient by the protesters whose strikes have brought Arianespace launches at Kourou’s spaceport to a halt.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
BlackSky Spectra is enlarging its network to include a fleet of additional Airbus satellites to make it “the largest network of high-resolution sensors accessible from an online catalog."
Defense

The milestone was 11 years in the making.
Defense

The new three-star deputy chief of staff for space will serve as an advocate for space on the Air Staff, which the Air Force hopes will speed decision making and increase responsiveness to emerging threats.
Space

COLORADO SPRINGS—Igor Komarov, director general of Russia’s Roscosmos state space corporation, agrees with other non-U.S.
Defense

LOCKHEED MARTIN has $273.5m Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract for MDA Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) Lot 9 Interceptors and $11.8m MDA contract for Thaad spares for United Arab Emirates. ROCKWELL COLLINS has $142.4m U.S Navy contract for procurement of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II through November 2022.

This week sees the Space Foundation’s annual National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, as well as the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference near Washington

Propulsion engineers at Aerojet Rocketdyne are banking on their company’s long experience building large rocket engines to see its AR1 kerosene engine as the logical replacement for the Russian RD-180 to launch future U.S. national security payloads.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Several representatives of leading-edge aviation and commercial space companies marched to Capitol Hill on April 4 to try to catch up lawmakers on what is needed in the next FAA reauthorization measure—assuming Congress can provide it.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky is claiming that its CH-53K King Stallion would be a cost-effective option if it was selected to meet an upcoming German requirement for a heavy-lift helicopter.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Orbital ATK, United Launch Alliance and NASA are targeting April 18 for the launch of Orbital’s seventh NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The two candidate sites just north of the planet’s equator are believed to be at a suitably low level so that there is sufficient atmosphere to help slow the landing module’s parachute descent.
Defense

The midlife upgrade being planned for the U.S. Navy MH-60 “Sierra” and “Romeo” Sea Hawk fleets will include new rotor blades and engine improvements to boost speed, range and lifting capacity.
Defense

Boeing Phantom Works sees its joint development of the TX next-generation training aircraft with Saab as how it would approach the development of future front-line fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion