ViaSat Inc. has pulled the plug on a launch this year of the ViaSat-2 Ka-band satellite atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and will instead loft the 6,400-kg satellite on an Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket in early 2017.
Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
Satellite fleet operator and broadband service provider ViaSat says it will form a joint venture with Paris-based Eutelsat under a European-broadband partnership.
The savings will also help preserve budgets for the new T-X trainer and the Joint Stars Recapitalization (JStars Recap) program, both of which were threatened with delay.
The U.S. Army’s aviation spending request for fiscal 2017 is $3.6 billion, down more than $2 billion from the $5.9 billion in the defense bill approved by Congress last year. However, it remains the largest segment of the Army’s $15.1 billion procurement request.
MDA Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the agency is accepting some risk in reducing interceptor buys for the Aegis combat missile defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in fiscal 2017.
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2017 plan maintains its funding for carriers and destroyers but – as recently directed by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter – cuts down on the number of Littoral Combat Ships and fast frigate successor vessels.
Under the plan, aeronautics funding would break the $1 billion barrier for the first time in more than two decades, peaking at more than $1.3 billion in 2023.
The budget plan appears to contain no real surprises except an apparent shift away from the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) that has been a centerpiece in President Barack Obama’s space policy.
The reflects a base Navy future years defense program from 2017 to 2021 of $826.4 billion, or about $1.6 billion higher than the FYDP presented with the fiscal 2016 budget.
Altogether the budget plan includes about $13.2 billion for the Ohio-class replacement program across the future years’ defense program (FYDP), with the initial submarine included in fiscal 2021.
The U.S. and South Korea are looking to deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) system on South Korean soil in light of recent North Korean actions, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook says.
BBA ACQUISITION acquired LANDMARK AVIATION for $2.065b, further expanding its MRO subsidiary SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT. RAYTHEON has $135m FAA contract to upgrade air traffic control systems at last 22 airports of the Standard Terminal Automation System (STARS), completing NextGen terminal modernization at major FAA National Air Space facilities by December 2019.
