Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — Finmeccanica-owned helicopter firm AgustaWestland is looking to put the bribery scandal over its truncated sale of 12 VVIP helicopters to

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — Zephyr, Airbus Defense and Space’s solar-powered pseudo-satellite unmanned air vehicle, has completed trials in winter conditions on behalf

By Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES — The Scaled Composites-developed SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane conducted a cold-flow pressurization test of the vehicle’s modified

Alon Ben David
As Lockheed Martin gets ready to integrate improved Aegis combat systems for modernized or newly built ships, the U.S. Navy is considering what to do

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI—As part of its effort to expedite military modernization, India is likely to finalize several pending defense deals, including the purchase

Alon Ben David
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By Guy Norris
NASA Review Extends SLS Potential Launch Window To Late 2018 LOS ANGELES — NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket has been approved to continue

By Jay Menon
NEW DELHI — India has officially barred Finmeccanica from bidding on its future weapons-supply deals but has allowed the Italian defense major to

EAGLE CRASH: An Air National Guard F-15C Eagle fighter crashed near Deerfield, Virginia, at roughly 9:05 a.m. Aug. 27, the Pentagon announced. The

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — The U.K. defense ministry is considering options for upgrading its fleet of C-130J Hercules transport aircraft. The U.K. loaned one of the

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has postponed the planned Aug. 27 launch of the AsiaSat-6 communications satellite to determine whether the

By Tony Osborne
LONDON – The Turkish government has extended a deadline for bidders to submit their renewed tenders in a disputed ground-based air defense system deal

As the summer ends, the U.S. Navy is getting ready for major tests of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission packages. After switching out its countermine

HOUSTON — Robonaut 2, the first U.S.-built, dexterous humanoid in space, is scheduled to receive a pair of climbing legs before the U.S. Labor Day

MAINTAINING COURSE: Despite China’s Aug. 19 harassment of a U.S. P-8 sub-hunter aircraft in international airspace near Hainan Island, the Pentagon

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PARIS — The European Commission (EC) has asked the European Space Agency (ESA) and commercial launch consortium Arianespace to provide details of the

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says it has performed flight tests of a fly-by-wire boom system destined for use on tanker conversions of

CORSAIR DOWN: The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) has lost one of its Vought A-7 Corsairs less than two months before the type is due to be retired. The

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — The Algerian air force may be carrying out trials with the Airbus A400M airlifter. Pictures of one of the development aircraft, F-WWMZ —

By Tony Osborne
LONDON — The Algerian air force may be carrying out trials with the Airbus A400M airlifter. Pictures of one of the development aircraft, F-WWMZ —

By Graham Warwick
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is seeking ways to assemble human-scale products from atomic-scale constituents to enable new

The U.S. Navy awarded contracts this month with a total potential value of $161.6 million for various kinds of support for the Littoral Combat ship

HOUSTON—The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission managers are working toward mid-October for a pair of key landing site and operational

Pentagon decisions to send some of its most modern platforms and systems to Japan underscore the U.S. commitment to the Asian country and the region