Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

NASA is awarding Planet a multimillion-dollar agreement to provide the space agency with Earth observation data to track essential climate variables.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center may partner with the nascent Space Development Agency (SDA) by providing launch and contracting services.

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s road to financial recovery may have become harder now that Spruce Point Capital has issued a report arguing the California missile and space propulsion provider is overvalued.

Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has canceled the re-engining of the Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft with Russo-French SaM146 engines.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue a request for information this summer followed by a draft solicitation by the end of the fiscal year on a future space architecture.

AUSTRALIA will receive eighth BOEING P-8A Poseidon, to serve as long-term fatigue management aircraft, at RAAF Base Edinburgh in mid-June.

Rafael and Embraer are discussing equipping the Brazilian company’s KC-390 aircraft with the Israeli company’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems.

Frequentis and Sunhillo Corporation have announced a new system that connects drone operators with civilian and military ATC facilities.

The B-1B, C-5M and KC-135 fleets are now scheduling maintenance actions using algorithms designed to predict failures based on its condition in real-time.

Alphabet Wing on April 9 announced the launch of a commercial drone delivery service in the suburbs of Canberra, Australia’s capital.

The National Space Foundation’s (NSF) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has unveiled the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

Responsive launch, defending U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit and a proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit may all be tools for defending against adversaries in space, but the nation needs to keep all options open through funding all avenues, according to the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive.

When India launched a ballistic missile at its own Microsat-R satellite, Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence was watching.

Satellite services provider Intelsat said April 10 it may have to warn about bad news if it cannot reconnect with its Intelsat 29e satellite.

DARPA has awarded $400 million to three space launch companies to participate in its launch challenge aimed at being able to arrange and pull off a launch in a short period of time.

Japan has grounded its 12 remaining Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings following the crash of one of its stealthy fighters over the Pacific Ocean on April 9.

Raytheon has demoed a land-based expeditionary version of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for the first time to the USAF, Navy and Marine Corps.

British defense and engineering firm Babcock is selling its share in France’s military helicopter flight training company Helidax.

The Trump administration is abandoning its controversial proposal to end direct federal support for the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025.

The U.S. Air Force has started a regeneration process for a second Boeing B-52H bomber that has been parked in long-term storage in Arizona.

BOEING has $7.7m U.S. Air Force contract for Laser Pod research and development.

This week the 35th Space Symposium is underway in Colorado Springs, drawing an estimated 9,000 attendees from around the world.

Peraton Inc., Herndon, Virginia, is awarded a $32,345,388 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo pilots Dave Mackay and Mike Masucci, as well as Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, earned their commercial astronaut wings from the FAA on April 9.

A U.S. Air Force official’s month-old proposal to buy back intellectual property rights on military equipment from industry has drawn sharp criticism from two industry executives.