New modeling of the Earth-Moon system attempts to further explain the explosive nature of the lunar formation and the complex interactions between the battered Earth, its offspring and the Sun that followed.
Turkey has committed to purchase an additional 24 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, one of the largest single orders for the aircraft placed by a foreign country.
The Pentagon expects the number of deployed U.S. nuclear warheads to rise by the next State Department reporting period in March as more of its nuclear delivery vehicles—bombers, submarines and missiles—come out of maintenance.
Boeing’s ordnance shop in St. Charles, Missouri, is set to continue producing the U.S. military’s largest non-nuclear bomb, the 30,000-lb. GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).
AIRBUS DEFENSE AND SPACE finished construction of first of two GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Follow-On) satellites for NASA in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Satellite will be transferred to Ottobrunn for several months of operational testing. SAAB has SEK226m ($25m) contract with Spanish shipbuilder NAVANTIA for integrated combat system for two new Royal Australian Navy replenishment ships. L-3 OCEANIA has AUS$307m ($233m) Australian Defense Force contract for new night vision goggles, helmet mounts, head harnesses and laser aiming devices.
Alcoa, a major manufacturing provider to the aerospace and defense sector, issued disappointing results earlier this month and more interestingly cut back near-term forecasts for its A&D business. The company Nov. 1 will split in a plan to continue its A&D business under the new Arconic name while leaving its traditional aluminum and related work under the Alcoa brand. For the third quarter of 2016, Arconic segments reported revenue of $3.4 billion, off 1% year over year, although after-tax operating income of $267 million was up 4%.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 31-Nov. 2—Year 2016 Multinational BMD Conference and Exhibition London, Novotel London West, London, England. For more information go to www.aviationweek.com/events
Repaired U.S. Air Force F-35As are beginning to fly again after the discovery of faulty insulation inside the fuel tanks grounded 15 operational jets in September.
The FAA has extended through October 2018 its ban on U.S. air carriers from operating in and flying over a large region of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The U.S. Air Force has kicked off a scientific advisory board study that will begin identifying key capabilities needed to fight in the battlespace of 2030.
Avic is presenting its new Cloud Shadow jet and a greatly expanded development of its Wing Loong propeller-driven series at the show, while China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) is displaying the CH-5, a jet-propelled follow-on to its established CH-4.
The first of Russia's upgraded Soyuz crew transports departed the International Space Station (ISS) late Oct. 29 and descended to Earth in remote Kazakhstan to end a 115 day assignment aboard the orbiting science laboratory for NASA's Kate Rubins, Russia's Anatoli Ivanishin and Japan's Takuya Onishi.
The surface-to-surface Atacms weapon will be adapted for strikes on vessels up to 186 mi. (300 km) off the coast, providing the U.S. Army with its first coastal defense weapon in decades.
The huge friction-stir-welded propellant tanks just coming off the new Space Launch System (SLS) production line in New Orleans could be a source of structure for future space habitats.
