In observance of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Sept. 9.
SIKORSKY has $46.1m U.S. Army foreign military sales contract for four UH-60M helicopters for Slovakia. Work to be performed in Stratford, CT, complete by May 31, 2017. KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC. has $20m, two-year contract for electromagnetic railgun work for undisclosed U.S. government customer.
Boeing will call its CST-100 commercial crew vehicle the Starliner. Chris Ferguson, the company’s deputy commercial crew program manager, announced the name Sept. 4 at a ceremony opening the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. The Starliner will be assembled and processed for launch in the new facility, which occupies one of NASA’s shuttle-era Orbiter Processing Facilities (Aerospace DAILY, Sept. 4).
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Aug. 31-Sept. 2—AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (Space 2015), Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California. For more information go to www.aiaa-space.org
Earlier this year, Former Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale was reasonably assured that Congress would find a way to pass spending legislation before this year’s appropriations measure expires on Sept. 30.
The U.S. Air Force has elected to extend the time between major repair overhauls for its stealthy B-2 bombers by two years and decrease the time needed for each overhaul.
The last aircraft, the 279th off the line, was rolled into the facility’s paint shop at the end of August and will shortly begin engine and systems checks.
Deliveries of Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopters from Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin are running ahead of schedule, because U.S. budget-control measures are forcing delays in acquisition for the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler pilots fired an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile off the coast of Virginia during a Tactical Support Wing training event earlier this month, marking the first time Electronic Attack Squadron 209 (VAQ-209) has employed the Raytheon-built missile.
The FAA is proposing to update its decades-old rules that do not formally recognize launch and recovery operations for high-powered amateur rockets on U.S. soil.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Sept. 4, delivering a three-man crew for a week of spacecraft and personnel exchanges as well as technology demonstrations and science experiments.
Denmark’s first astronaut plans to join with ground-based researchers at ESA’s Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory in The Netherlands over his weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station to demonstrate technologies for the orbital control of robots on planetary surfaces.
Boeing says it is on track to fly its CST-100 commercial crew vehicle in September and December 2017 for the first U.S.-launched human missions to the International Space Station since 2011.
Terrafugia is threatening to move its TF-X small UAV flying car research and development work out of the U.S. if the FAA does not grant the company an exemption for its work.
Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio have signed agreements valued at €182 million ($205 million) with Italian space agency ASI to begin work on the next phase of Italy’s dual-use COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) radar satellite program.
China announced a cut of about 13% in armed forces personnel on Sept. 3 ahead of a parade that marked the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
The first two Lockheed Martin F-35As for the U.S. Air Force’s initial operational Joint Strike Fighter unit were delivered to the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AFB, Utah, on Sept. 2.
Four helicopter manufacturers will compete to fulfill Poland’s accelerated attack helicopter requirement, replacing the country’s fleet of Russian-built Mil-24/25 Hinds.
