Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

On Tuesday Arianespace is scheduled to launch the Intelsat 39 and EDRS-C communications satellites aboard an Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana

ROCKWELL COLLINS has $40.2m U.S. Air Force contract for training system support center operations for E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System Aircrew Training Device.

By Steve Trimble
The first of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band pods ordered by the Navy will be used to verify aircraft installation compliance, including mass properties and ground procedures.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
The agency previously selected 13 cubesats to piggyback rides on the first SLS-Orion mission, an unmanned flight known as Artemis-1 that is expected to launch in 2021.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force agreed to accept deliveries of KC-46 aircraft last January after a two-year impasse on the condition that Boeing correct two technical deficiencies.
Defense

Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Inc., Northridge, California, is being awarded a $167,338,657 firm-fixed-price contract for 263 full-rate production Lot 8 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles.

By Steve Trimble
A $23.8 million contract awarded on Aug. 2 by the Air Force Research Laboratory launches the service’s experiment with a laser intended to shoot down swarms of small unmanned air systems, along with salvos of mortars and rockets.
Defense

By Bill Carey
UPS said last month that it had applied to the FAA for a Part 135 air carrier certificate to operate the WakeMed delivery service, which uses the M2 quadcopter supplied by Matternet, of Mountain View, California.

By Tony Osborne
The Eurojet In-Service Support contract aims to deliver cost savings to the Royal Air Force’s Typhoon operation.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Using computer vision and machine learning, the Zurich-based company is developing an autopilot for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, helicopters, heavy drones and other aircraft.

By Tony Osborne
The French inventor of a jet-powered personal vertical takeoff and landing system has successfully flown across the English Channel.

By Graham Warwick
At $2,500 a month per satellite, LeoTrack is intended for use by all smallsat operators, from individual academic satellites to commercial constellations.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Defense

Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
Defense

The Philippines has selected Israeli company Elbit Systems for the supply of advanced UAVs.

RAYTHEON has $36.3m U.S. Air Force contract for Qatar Early Warning Radar.

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TURKEY took delivery of the final four of 11 BOEING CH-47F Chinook helicopters July 31.

The U.S. Senate has approved a two-year budget deal that will maintain increased defense spending over the next two years.

Aug. 6-8—2019 Global Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Symposium & Exhibition, Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, Maryland. For more information go to https://www.ndia.org/events/2019/8/6/9950---global-eod

By Mark Carreau
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
Defense

By Maksim Pyadushkin
Russian arms trade agency Rosoboronexport confirmed this week it has approved the resale of two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transports from Jordan to Egypt.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army has selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to compete to supply a 50 kW-class laser on Stryker combat vehicles within three years.
Defense