Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing is telling customers and suppliers that the 737 MAX will not receive its first regulatory approvals until “mid-2020,” which all but ensures MAX operators will not have the aircraft before the peak mid-year travel period ends.

BAE Systems’ move to bulk up its U.S. defense subsidiary with the acquisitions of a core piece of the erstwhile Rockwell Collins and a competitor unit to rival prime L3Harris Technologies will come at a premium, analysts said.

Retired NASA astronauts Scott Kelly, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Pam Melroy, all former military test pilots and space mission commanders, have been selected for entry into the U S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Billed as the “world’s largest trade show dedicated to the international helicopter community,” Heli-Expo 2020 opens Jan. 27 in Anaheim, California.

Eleven NASA candidate astronauts completed two years of basic training on Jan. 10 to become eligible for flight assignments.

Bell Boeing plans to deliver the first CMV-22B ordered by the U.S. Navy to the HX-21 test and evaluation squadron in early 2020.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch on Jan. 20 completed the latest spacewalk in a long-running effort to upgrade the space station's solar power generation system.

BAE is expected to pay $1.925 billion for Collins’ GPS business and another $275 million for Raytheon’s radio business

The test is the last major milestone before a crewed flight test to the International Space Station as early as March.

In observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the U.S., Aerospace Daily And Defense Report will not publish an issue dated Jan. 21. The next

Industry Events Calendar

In-space manufacturing company Made In Space, Inc. (MIS) is relocating its headquarters and satellite manufacturing operations to a new facility in Jacksonville, Florida.

Brief news items of interest to aerospace and defense professionals.

Collins Aerospace will provide critical subsystems for Orion spacecraft crews assigned to resume human exploration of the lunar surface starting in 2024

The air vehicle was lost during the ground-recovery sequence, but Dynetics noted it has four test vehicles remaining.

Pakistan has given Turkey another year to secure export permits for the engines that will power a new fleet of attack helicopters being supplied by Ankara.

After describing the performance of military acquisition officials and defense contractors as a “nightmare,” U.S. Air Foirce Gen. John Hyten on Jan

Leonardo has conducted the long-awaited first flight of its Falco Xplorer unmanned aircraft system. The 1.3-metric-ton, medium-altitude, long

The Pentagon continues to assess whether signing a five-year performance-based logistics (PBL) contract with Lockheed Martin is the most cost

An Ariane 5 placed the Konnect satellite for Eutelsat and India's GSAT-30 into orbit Jan. 16.

The U.S. Navy is conducting an environmental impact study that includes holding hearings in areas near potential sites for dismantling America's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

Autonomous urban air mobility vehicles with centralized command and control will increase safety, Chinese air-taxi developer EHang says in a new white paper.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next decade, 3,206 new western fighter aircraft will be built and delivered.

Brief news items of interest to aerospace and defense professionals.

Bombardier is “reassessing future participation” in the Airbus A220 partnership and is looking to significantly lower its debt levels.