Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
NASA is polling industry on technologies that have a high probability of being used in new single-aisle airliners entering service in 2030-35.
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
Working through unfunded Space Act Agreements with 17 U.S. companies, NASA has selected 20 space technologies it intends to help advance to enable future activities at destinations spanning from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
Commercial Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian Defense Ministry was cited by local media as saying a Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter was shot down on Nov. 9 near the Armenian village of Yeraskh.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Slightly over 18 months since the Space Development Agency's launch, the first two elements of its future constellation are now defined and under contract.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is striving to complete a series of eight critical Green Run tests of the Space Launch System core stage by year’s end, a milestone that in late September it had planned to achieve in early November before Hurricane Zeta struck the Gulf Coast.
Space

By Lee Hudson
With fewer than 80 days left in office, President Donald Trump “has terminated” Defense Secretary Mark Esper from his role leading the Pentagon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has experienced another cable break, this one to a main cable which gave way late Nov. 6.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells Aerospace DAILY the new administration will need "somebody they know and trust."
Space

By Steve Trimble
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty resigned as the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration on Nov. 6 following reports of internal clashes within the Energy Department.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two kits for manufacturing Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopters to Kazakhstan, which will host the first foreign assembly line of the Russian rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army has completed a precision navigation, and timing assessment exercise informing requirements development that will eventually be integrated into Project Convergence.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire plans urban air mobility demonstrations in Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela in 2022 under two projects funded by Europe’s Horizon 2020 research program through the SESAR air traffic management modernization effort.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force’s 23rd Wing and 347th Rescue Group has received the first two HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters at Moody AFB in Georgia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The sample material recently gathered from the asteroid Bennu’s surface by NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft shows evidence for containing the water and organic chemistry that mission scientists were hoping will be returned to Earth, scientists say.
Space

By Steve Trimble
An attempt to rapidly field Tranche 0 satellites for a new Tracking Layer in low Earth orbit faces delays after two companies filed protests seeking to overturn contract awards by the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES—After a prolonged test preparation campaign, Virgin Galactic aims to conduct the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceflight attempt
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The flight was watched closely by NASA as it prepares for the first SpaceX crew ferry flight to the International Space Station later this month.
Space

By Samuel Archer
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Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The modernized Tupolev Tu-160M strategic bomber made its first flight with new NK-32 series 2 engines on Nov. 3, Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. reported.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The new chief executive of Kaman, which recently downsized to focus on aerospace and defense, expects to pursue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and to implement a new business operating system to squeeze higher margins out of the supplier’s operations.
Supply Chain

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Roscosmos State Corp. plans to expand the Russian segment of the International Space Station with two new modules in 2021.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Triumph Group will at least announce the sale of the rest of its aerostructure business before April 2021, if not close on the deal, the supplier’s chief executive asserted Nov. 5.
Maintenance & Training

By Michael Bruno
Raptor Scientific, a new portfolio company by investment firm L Squared Capital Partners that is seeking to roll up aerospace and defense testing and measurement assets, has bought radar cross-section specialist Sensor Concepts, representatives said Nov. 5.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare