Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy has deactivated the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 and consolidated the unit’s Lockheed Martin F-35Cs at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is sending a Patriot anti-missile battery, reconnaissance aircraft and an additional 1,500 U.S. troops to the Middle East to deter Iran.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Saab is preparing to deliver the first of three new GlobalEye airborne earning warning aircraft to the United Arab Emirates next April, company CEO Hakan Bushke has disclosed.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
After Sikorsky received a $1.3 billion contract for 12 CH-53K King Stallions, the company is “bullish” about the future and recently invested $4 million in one machine to support the production ramp, the company’s president said.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Nearly a year after a propellant leak suspended Boeing CST-100 Starliner launch abort motor tests, the company successfully put the repaired system through a series of static firings.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) has quietly begun testing Leonardo’s BriteCloud active decoy on its Eurofighter Typhoons.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines says it is hoping to acquire at least two Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrollers from the U.S.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The Planetary Society’s experimental LightSail 2 (LS 2) small satellite is ready for a high-altitude orbital test of a sunlight-propulsion technology for CubeSats.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Danish CubeSat manufacturer GomSpace is to design what could be the first standalone nanosatellite to rendezvous with an asteroid.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Thermal management devices for spacecraft that use graphene to improve heat transfer are undergoing testing in a zero-gravity parabolic flight campaign funded by the European Union’s Graphene Flagship project.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxis will need places to operate from if urban air mobility (UAM) is to take off.

By Graham Warwick
Nine teams have been selected to develop artificial intelligence for high-speed drones and compete in the first racing series for autonomous aircraft.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Two pillars of NASA human spaceflight—Christopher Kraft, Jr., the agency’s first flight director, and retired astronaut Peggy Whitson—have been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Defense

TURKEY has sent military personnel to Russia to undergo training on S-400 anti-air missile systems, TASS reports.

The Angolan National Air Force reportedly has taken delivery of the final four of 12 Su-30K multirole fighters refurbished at the Belarusian 558th Aviation Repair Plant.

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By Arie Egozi
The acquisition of Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missiles by Turkey will create a “new order” in the air spaces of the region, primarily affecting Israel and the U.S., Israeli sources said on May 23.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
RATP Group, the company running Paris’ public transport system, has signed agreements with Airbus to study the use of urban air mobility systems in the city.

By Michael Bruno
Héroux-Devtek, the Canadian-based No. 3 landing gear provider, is boosting its portfolio of work for OEM Boeing, including a new acquisition and the expansion of F-15 gear supply.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee does not have any major deviations from the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The FAA has expanded the number of air traffic control (ATC) facilities covered by its Low-Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC), an automated process that allows drone operators to request and obtain authorization to fly in the vicinity of airports.

By Irene Klotz
NASA has awarded a hotly competed contract to Maxar to build and fly a high-powered solar electric satellite bus that will become the base module of the agency’s planned lunar-orbiting Gateway.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
First flight of the Sukhoi S-70 unmanned combat air vehicle could be delayed by a year.
Defense

India has once again test-fired the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from its frontline Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter, paving the way for the induction of the missile into its air force.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force scientists have demonstrated a technology that can be used to create secure communication links between satellites and the Earth and allow networking between quantum computers.
Defense