Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

With rhetoric and tensions rising, nations operating in the Asia-Pacific region are emphasizing adherence to military aviation and maritime rules and

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COLORADO SPRINGS — An influential government commission is recommending the quick start of a new liquid oxygen (LOx)/hydrocarbon engine program not

COLORADO SPRINGS — Technicians found a significant amount of water inside the latest SpaceX Dragon capsule to land in the Pacific after a mission to

SPACE ALLIANCE: In the interests of defending space, the U.S. this week signed a cooperative agreement with key allies Australia, Canada and the U.K

BERLIN — Germany is in the final stages of flight testing an upgrade for its Tornado fighter-bombers that could help the aircraft remain in service

COLORADO SPRINGS — A startup commercial satellite constellation plans to use a fleet of 18 small Earth-observing satellites with terabyte data storage

BEIJING — China probably has several thousand increasingly effective anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), while its stock and quality of land-attack

U.K.-based aerospace, aviation and defense equipment provider Cobham is taking a big step toward repositioning itself now that the wars in Iraq and

Aurora Flight Sciences has moved into the second phase of an Office of Naval Research program to develop an autonomous on-demand resupply capability

BERLIN — Airbus Helicopters has frozen the configuration for Germany’s planned fleet of NH90 Sea Lion helicopters. The German government is planning

ORLANDO, Fla. — With U.S. troops out of Iraq and most coming home from Afghanistan by year’s end, Army planners are trying to figure out what

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is reviewing a helium leak on the first stage of its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket that was discovered May 9 during

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COLORADO SPRINGS — U.S. Air Force Space Command chief Gen. William Shelton is calling for a “cool down” period between U.S. officials and their

COLORADO SPRINGS — Aerojet Rocketdyne has studied what it would take to replace the Russian-built RD-180 and AJ-26 rocket engines used in the Atlas V and Antares launch vehicles. The answer is at least four years, with enough money, said Julie Van Kleeck, Aerojet Rocketdyne vice president for Advanced Space & Launch Systems, when asked what it would take to develop new engines domestically if Russia shuts off the supply over the Crimean crisis.

NOT HAPPY: The Obama administration is warning of a possible presidential veto if lawmakers accept many of the changes to the fiscal 2015 defense

COLORADO SPRINGS — Space products and services provided by the private sector grew by 7% in 2013, continuing a global trend to more commercial space

BERLIN — Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has completed a milestone 50 sorties in the flight-test program of the Hurkus indigenous trainer. Hurkus

COLOGNE, Germany — SpaceX hopes its mission to launch six second-generation Orbcomm communication satellites aboard its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket can take

BEIJING — The addition of Avic J-10 and Sukhoi Su-30 fighters in an annual joint naval exercise will increase the challenges for the Chinese and Russian participants, Chinese media report. Chinese ships in the May 20-25 exercise will include the Type 052C (Luyang II) air-defense destroyer Zhengzhou and the Sovremenny class surface-warfare destroyer Ningbo. The fighters will be among nine aircraft participating, National Defense University professor Li Li tells state television network CCTV.

NEW DELHI — India has developed a supersonic track for testing payloads for manned space missions as well as critical fuses for missile warhead

As the Pentagon continues to rebalance its forces and resources to the Asia-Pacific, Adm. Jonathan Greenert, the U.S. chief of naval operations, says

COLORADO SPRINGS — United Launch Alliance (ULA) says the per-unit cost of its Atlas V 401 – the launcher roughly equivalent in lift capability to

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