Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

TORONTO – Iridium, which sold out the hosted-payload space on its next-generation low Earth orbit (LEO) communications-satellite constellation, says

LONDON – Five offshore oil and gas helicopter operators are signing up to support a new international industry association. Avincis Group, Bristow and

LONDON — Swiss startup helicopter manufacturer Marenco Swisshelicopter has carried out the first flight of its SKYe SH09 single-engine light

Austal USA recently launched the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) Trenton from its shipyard. The ship is now ready to start its final stages of

The amphibious assault ship LHA 5 USS Peleliu, lead ship of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group (PEL ARG), embarked the Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG

BEIJING — Australian composites manufacturer Quickstep will close its U.S. facility and transfer the equipment to licensee Vector Composites of Ohio

The U.S. Navy established the Information Dominance Forces Command (Navidfor) earlier this month. Navidfor is a global readiness-focused type command

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EXELIS, NJ received certification from USAF for its AN/ALQ-211(V)9 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System (AIDEWS) for Pakistani F

LONDON — Germany says it is suspending deliveries of Eurofighter combat aircraft after engineers discovered a manufacturing defect in the rear

LONDON — The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has disbanded one of its two AgustaWestland EH101 Merlin helicopter squadrons, as it hands over the fleet to the Royal Navy. In a ceremony at RAF Benson, Oxfordshire, on Sept. 30, the RAF closed down 78 Sqdn., while the Royal Navy stood up 846 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), which will fly the Merlin Mk. 3 helicopters as part of the Commando Helicopter Force, the U.K.’s main amphibious transport helicopter organization.

If there’s one message the U.S. Navy would like to get across about the future Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) aboard the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) or any other ship in the fleet: don’t count your missiles before they are bought. While the Navy and the Norwegian company recently touted a successful NSM test off the LCS 4 USS Coronado, the service brass is now emphasizing that putting the NSM on an LCS – or aboard any other ship in the fleet for that matter – is not a foregone conclusion.

TORONTO — The heads of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) signed agreements here Tuesday setting up a working group to explore

HOUSTON — Preparations for the early December launch of Exploration Flight Test-1, the first unpiloted test flight of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Orion

NEW DELHI — The indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) is now ready for acceptance testing after the first aircraft built to series production

LONDON — German investigators probing the crash of a military-chartered Learjet 35A have found that the aircraft banked into one of two German air

SEARCH CONTINUES: One crewman was missing Oct. 1 after bailing out of an MV-22 Osprey that lost power on takeoff from the USS Makin Island (LHD 8)

BEIJING — Australia has contracted with BAE Systems to upgrade the Nulka naval defense system’s launcher, with the aim of ensuring the hovering-rocket

NEW DELHI — An Indian army Cheetah helicopter crashed in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Oct. 1, killing the two pilots and an engineer

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ESTERLINE CORPORATION agreed to acquire the aerospace/defense display business of BARCO, Belgium for €150m. MARSHALL AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE GROUP CANADA was selected by Cascade Aerospace as engineering subcontractor for Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CC130 Avionics Optimized Weapons System Management (AVS OWSM) program.

LOS ANGELES — As part of ongoing moves to streamline its defense and space business, Boeing is relocating the majority of its service and support

NASA’s RapidScat scatterometer, delivered to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s fourth Dragon resupply mission last week, was removed

RIDLEY PARK, Pennsylvania — U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command is seeking greater commonality with the regular Army as it receives its