Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing is working with satellite customer Intelsat to figure out why Intelsat 29e failed after the spacecraft was declared a total loss.

The USAF is standing up a gateway comm system at an operational base to enable certain front-line fighters, including the F-35A, to transmit data to other aircraft types without compromising its stealth signature.

The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program delivered the fifth satellite to Cape Canaveral after successfully completing a battery of tests.

Government services provider Jacobs is buying cybersecurity specialist KeyW for $815 million, including $272 million in debt, the companies announced April 22.

An Italian startup developing micro-turbines to power unmanned aircraft has won the $1 million grand prize in New York state’s Genius NY accelerator competition.

Japanese industry is discussing the creation of a joint company for fighter development.

A directive that accelerates NASA’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with humans from 2024-2028 has also created an urgency that it return first with rovers.

India hopes to expedite work on its much-delayed Intermediate Jet Trainer after resuming test flights of a modified version of the aircraft.

Australia has received the first of three Dassault Falcon 7X business jets that will re-equip the VIP squadron based at Canberra.

A test of abort thrusters destroyed the capsule that had returned from an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.

A photographer captured a dramatic image of dark smoke rising from the southern tip of Cape Canaveral AFS.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $44.4m U.S. Air Force contract for the production of electronic attack pods.

A German military Global 5000 VIP transport suffered an avionics failure at Berlin-Schönefeld Airport that resulted in a crash landing April 16.

uAvionix, a developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, says it is testing a prototype control radio for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and urban air mobility vehicles.

In a surprise move, Bell is offering a scaled-down development of its Model 525 commercial helicopter to meet the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance (FARA) requirement.

Nextant Aerospace said it successfully completed initial certification flight testing of the new Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) flight deck of U.S. Air Force T-1A Jayhawk twin-engine trainers.

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Citing traffic congestion in the capital, Manila, a startup has launched a helicopter ridesharing service in the Philippines.

After helping set an endurance record for multirotor small unmanned aircraft of more than 12 hr., the UK’s Intelligent Energy has launched a fuel-cell power unit for the commercial drone market.

The U.S. Army is implementing actions garnered from its aviation warfighting initiative.

Turkey is facing problems in acquiring certain spare parts for its F-16s as a result of undeclared sanctions imposed by the U.S.

A thermoplastic nanocomposite that rivals aluminum in performance, but at a lower weight, is to be commercialized by a new startup.

The real-world effectiveness of laser weapons is to be tested in a new laboratory inaugurated in Bordeauc, France, by European missile manufacturer MBDA.

Northrop Grumman’s 11th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission capsule rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule early April 19.

UK COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY launched investigation into RHEINMETALL DEFENSE UK LTD.’s acquisition of BAE SYSTEMS GLOBAL COMBAT SYSTEMS LTD. to determine if it will result in “substantial lessening of competition” in any UK markets.