Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

LONDON—Two weeks after beginning to sell off its share of Dassault Aviation, Airbus Group has agreed to sell its stake in Finnish defense firm Patria

Four more companies have received FAA approvals for limited commercial operations of small unmanned aircraft systems, expanding authorized uses to

LONDON—The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been requested by the European Commission to investigate a series of near midair collisions

BEIJING—Building 12 submarines in Australia would cost around AUS$41 billion ($34.2 billion), according to a previously undisclosed estimate now

MOSCOW—Russia’s fifth-generation fighter, the Sukhoi T-50, will receive a new engine to replace the Izdelie 117 powerplants currently being used for

Contractor and Pentagon officials view programs and contracting through two different prisms, says Michael Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls

Denied any federal funding, the six civil unmanned aircraft systems test sites selected by the FAA in December 2013 are slowly bringing in business

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Boeing confirms it remains interested in South Korea’s KF-X fighter program but declines to say directly whether it is considering a development based on its Advanced Super Hornet.

BEIJING— Development of the next Chinese space launcher family has slipped again, with its two smaller members likely to fly next year while engineers

SIERRA NEVADA CORP. completed Milestone 15a in Reaction Control System (RCS) propulsion risk reduction for its Dream Chaser spacecraft, under NASA

Flight testing of South Africa’s Ahrlac light armed reconnaissance aircraft has passed the 50-hr. mark. The twin-boom, pusher-turboprop aircraft

Australia will appoint a team of up to 40 warship-building specialists from foreign companies to improve the performance of the ailing Hobart Class

PARIS—Airbus Defense and Space and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract for the production phase of the UAE’s twin-satellite Falcon Eye optical

PARIS—Orbital Sciences Corp. says it will resume flights of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) using United Launch

LONDON—U.K. air safety inspectors are investigating an air proximity (Airprox) incident between an Airbus A320 and a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

SAN DIEGO—NASA officials assessing initial data from the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion crew capsule say future recovery operations at sea

A modular satellite concept will be demonstrated in 2015 with a spacecraft built by NovaWurks to be launched on a U.S. booster along with other small

BEIJING—The Chinese space industry plans to use its forthcoming Long March 5 launcher to send a rover to Mars around 2020 while engineers separately

The first aircraft is slated to roll off the line by March 2015.

The U.S. NAVY took delivery of its first operational MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter from NORTHROP GRUMMAN; it is currently under contract to

HOUSTON—J ust as the U.S. begins to assemble and flight test spacecraft components for a new era of human deep-space exploration — kicked off by Orion

The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee will grill Obama administration witnesses on “Russian Arms Control Cheating and the

While the U.S. now has the right mix of forward-deployed forces in the Asia-Pacific region to do the job at acceptable levels of risk, the “current force structure and presence are not optimal to counter the threats we face,” says Adm. Harry Harris, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander.

PARIS—France and Britain have signed an initial contract for joint maintenance and in-service support of the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft