The transition team that President-elect Donald Trump has named for NASA has “a very reasonable approach on climate change” and will proceed with the current program, says Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of French space agency CNES.
British air accident investigators looking into the cause of an unstable landing of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter onto a North Sea oil platform have focused their attention on a damaged tail rotor component.
New studies suggest the date for the formation of the Earth’s moon can be narrowed down to the first 60 million years following the birth of the Solar System.
Sikorsky has called for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and tail rotor inspections of the S-92 utility helicopter following an incident on a North Sea offshore platform in December.
On Thursday morning Senate Armed Services lawmakers consider the nomination of former Marine Gen. James Mattis to be the next U.S. secretary of defense.
Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $45,061,664 delivery order (P00001) to previously awarded contract FA8105-17-F-0003.
Beware Booz Allen Hamilton, General Electric (GE) and other federal providers with Pentagon contracts expiring in 2017: you, too, could come under the bull’s-eye of a Trump administration looking to make good on campaign promises to cut costs.
NASA’s planned Psyche mission to study a unique metallic main-belt asteroid will use spacecraft technology developed by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for geostationary communications satellites, including solar electric propulsion (SEP) thrusters that will allow the Discovery-class probe to orbit the distant body.
India has signed a satellite launch technology agreement with France to improve cooperation on future space launchers and an upcoming lunar rover mission.
AIRBUS has a £410m ($504m) UK defense ministry contract for support of Atlas A400M. BAE SYSTEMS has five-year U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract worth up to $49m for safeguarding sharing of sensitive information between networks belonging to the Pentagon, Intelligence Community, other government agencies.
Triumph Aerostructures has initiated litigation against Bombardier to recover additional development costs incurred by a redesign of the wing for the Global 7000 business jet. In response, Bombardier plans to sue Triumph for losses resulting from a two-year delay to the program.
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Under a contract announced last week with Babcock Mission Critical Services, the French air force will use the Pilatus PC-21 turboprop at an intermediate phase of fighter pilot training.
MD Helicopters will begin delivering six MD 530G light scout attack helicopters in March, filling a Malaysian army requirement of more than two decades.
LYON, France—Three members of the French government have reiterated their support for the country’s aerospace industry, in what sounds like a response to complaints about plummeting public research funding from the industry lobbying group Goupement des Industries Francaises Aeronautiques et Spatiales (GIFAS).
Aircraft and space systems parts and electronics provider Ducommun will welcome a new chief executive Jan. 23, with United Technologies Corp. (UTC) alumnus Stephen G. Oswald taking over as CEO and president.
The Philippines has reissued a request for tenders for six light attack aircraft to replace long-serving OV-10 Broncos, emphasizing economy and sustainability.
Iridium, the mission customer with its first 10 next-generation low Earth orbit communications satellites, said the launch has been rescheduled at 11:54 a.m. EST Jan. 14.
