Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

An altitude violation and lack of situational awareness during a demonstration flight at Dallas/Fort Worth marred what otherwise should have been the celebratory relaunch tour of a relatively unknown Sikorsky twin turboprop aircraft, the M28.

NASA’s Kepler mission has archived for the science community new raw data from a sustained and just-concluded Trappist-1 observing campaign using the exoplanet-seeking space telescope.

Lawmakers have given the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System program until March 2018 to wrap up pre-development studies and technology maturation work.

Leading consumer UAV manufacturer DJI is pushing for a higher weight limit of 2.2 kg (4.8 lb.) below which small unmanned aircraft systems are considered relatively harmless and do not require registration and are only lightly regulated.

The HASC's proposed $640 billion military base budget for fiscal 2018 includes $11 billion for more Lockheed Martin F-35s and Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets.

Leonardo has begun studies into a radically updated version of its best-selling AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter.

ILS has uncovered a problem with a component in a second-stage engine that delayed the launch of the Echostar XXI satellite on the Proton Breeze M rocket in December, company President Kirk Pysher says.

Hybrid Air Vehicles has made design changes to the Airlander 10, including the ability to recover the mooring line after release, following the heavy landing at the end of the hybrid airship’s second flight in August 2016.

A top U.S. Air Force general says the so-called OCX program is still on rocky ground.

Despite the visit, Indonesian officials played down expectations that an order for the airlifter was imminent.

Leonardo looks to bolster its existing core business of electro-optical and infrared sensors and systems with the acquisition, and ride business growth in new U.S. military aircraft survivability systems.

The U.S. Navy is finishing up testing of a 100% biofuel aimed a certifying the alternative to petroleum-based JP-5 jet fuel for use across all its fleets of turbine-powered aircraft.

Sikorsky, Metro Aviation and Petroleum Helicopters have developed a way of streaming health and usage monitoring system data off a helicopter so it can be used for urgent analysis.

SAAB has SEK105m ($11.7m) Brazilian army contract for deliveries of the RBS 70 man-portable air defense system, starting in 2017.

Leonardo is to conduct a second phase of the UK’s Rotary Wing Unmanned Air System capability concept demonstration (RWUAS CCD) under a two-year contract.

The vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says Russia’s new land-based cruise missile puts at risk “most of our facilities in Europe."

The ORS-8 satellite, approved in February, is planned for launch in 2020-21.

NASA’s Strategic Aerosol Gas Experiment III is ready for a 90-day activation and checkout session aboard the International Space Station.

ATM and UAV industry representatives have expressed a sense of urgency for both sectors to agree on an efficient, safe traffic-management concept.

Despite the promise of new economic opportunity, there are mounting obstacles to low Earth orbit prosperity, a U.S. researcher says.

Marenco Swisshelicopter has added Swiss helicopter operator Alpinlift as the second launch customer for its SKYe SH09 light helicopter.

The parent company of British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus, is set to be the launch customer of Inmarsat’s European Aviation Network high-speed in-flight broadband service.

Germany has selected the Northrop Grumman MQ-4 Triton high-altitude, long-endurance UAV as a platform for signals intelligence gathering.

MD Helicopters has finally revealed that its MD6XX development will be an advanced derivative of its MD600N single-engine light helicopter.

Dassault Aviation expects the business jet market to remain weak in 2017, with a gradual recovery likely to begin in 2018, its CEO says.