Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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LOCKHEED MARTIN and NASA finished final assembly and testing of first Orion spacecraft; capsule will stay in Launch Abort System Facility at Kennedy

It is growing increasingly unlikely that the U.S. Air Force will meet its Aug. 1, 2016, target date to declare F-35A initial operational capability

The Pentagon’s latest deal for 48 F135 engines from Pratt & Whitney for the single-engine F-35 stealthy fighter program costs $1.05 billion, according

LONDON—Sikorsky may withdraw from the Polish military’s utility helicopter program because of concerns about the competition requirements. In a letter

LONDON—Delays in the U.K. making its first batch order for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II were influenced by the engine fire that resulted in

LONDON—A consortium of Thales and U.K. air navigation service provider National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has secured a contract to modernize and

NEW DELHI—India’s next national communication satellite, GSAT-16, will be launched in December to augment its communications capability and boost

LONDON—France says it is hopeful of achieving the first qualification firings of the new Anglo-French lightweight anti-ship missile being developed by

The U.S. Navy recently demonstrated the autonomous operation of the first Reconnaissance and Detection Expendable Rover (Rader) prototype. “This was

The International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (Imcmex), which kicked off earlier this month in Bahrain with 44 participating nations from six

U.S. Marines in Hawaii recently used handheld devices and automation software to speed delivery of critical supplies to the front lines and help

AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE and PROVINCIAL AEROSPACE (PAL) finalized partnership agreement to pursue Canada’s fixed-wing search and rescue (FWSAR)

Orbital Sciences Corp. could accelerate a plan to re-engine the Antares main stage engine if the cause of an Oct. 28 launch failure is attributed to

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The day after its Antares rocket failed in a fireball over its coastal Virginia launch pad, Orbital Sciences Chairman and CEO David Thompson told Wall

The Russian navy will enhance its anti-submarine warfare capabilities by upgrading most of its Kamov Ka-27PL (Helix-A) antisubmarine rotorcraft fleet

It is growing more and more likely that July 1, 2015, will not mark the initial operational capability (IOC) declaration for the F-35B desired by the

Pentagon procurement czar Frank Kendall is confident Boeing will deliver the first 18 KC-46 aerial refuelers by August 2017 as planned, but staying on

The eighth of the U.S. Air Force’s 12 planned GPS IIF satellites was successfully launched Oct. 29 on an Atlas V 401 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The

HOUSTON—Russia’s Progress 57 resupply vessel launched and docked with the six-person International Space Station (ISS) early Oct. 29, in a flawless

U.S. Navy and contractor engineers activated the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer’s computer systems— known as the Total Ship Computing Environment

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GENERAL DYNAMICS CANADA will upgrade four Peruvian Navy SH-2G Super Seasprite helicopters to enhance surveillance, SAR. UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE is on

LONDON— The U.K. Defense Ministry says it has agreed in principle on a deal for the first production batch of F-35B Lightning IIs for use on the