Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

ArianeGroup has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a one-year feasibility study on exploiting lunar natural resources by 2025.

As part of preparations for a full-scale intercept test with the Arrow-3 ballistic missile defense system to be performed in Alaska, Israel and the U.S. have tested the missile over the Mediterranean.

A decision by embattled aerospace and defense supplier Arconic to not sell itself means a longer road to recovery for shareholders, analysts said.

Prior-year restructuring and the continuing upswing of aerospace and defense end-markets boosted Allegheny Technologies in 2018.

Luxaviation Group has signed an agreement to sell ExecuJet’s global maintenance activities to Dassault Aviation.

Ivory Coast has ordered a single Airbus C295 twin-turboprop airlifter for its air force, the airframer announced Jan. 21.

The purchases of Israel Military Industries by Elbit Systems and Aeronautics by Rafael will allow these firms to address the needs of the Israeli Air Force for UAS.

In a shocking move just three months after founder Paul Allen's death, Stratolaunch has abandoned development of a family of dedicated launchers and PGA rocket engines.

RHEINMETALL has Swedish armed forces contract to supply 47 MAN Military Vehicles for transporting RAYTHEON-made Patriot air defense systems.

Philippines defense minister Delfin Lorenzana has announced that the purchase of 16 S-70i Black Hawk helicopters will proceed.

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LEONARDO HELICOPTERS UK has five-year, £293m ($378m) contract to support UK Apache attack helicopters until its out-of-service date in March 2024.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has resumed science observations, following a voltage issue that interrupted operations by the 29-year-old space telescope’s primary imager on Jan. 8.

Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters Jan. 18 that the experimentation campaign will continue and details will be revealed in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 has resumed science observations.

A collaborative assessment concludes that samples of two Martian moons could be gathered robotically and returned to Earth without a biohazard threat.

With fewer than 70 days before Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU), aerospace still has no real sense of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

Singapore has announced it will acquire a small number of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to prepare for the eventual retirement of its F-16 fleet.

The few known details and the likely choice of engines suggest China’s new tactical bomber will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111.

Austrian aerospace provider FACC on Jan. 17 reaffirmed its financial guidance for its current fiscal year issued from last October.

Sounding rocket launches for NASA’s Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp have been continuing despite the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown.

DYNCORP INTERNATIONAL LLC has $18.5m U.S. Army contract for aviation field maintenance services.

Israeli drone delivery provider Flytrex has raised $7.5 million in a Series B investment round led by Benhamou Global Ventures.