Boeing Global Services increased revenue 14% in the third quarter (Q3) to $4.1 billion, and the strong environment combined with the folding in of parts distributor KLX led the company to raise full-year revenue guidance to $16 billion-$16.5 billion.
SpaceX has signed two new commercial customers for Falcon Heavy launches, while competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) has nabbed a sole-source Delta IV Heavy launch contract from the National Reconnaissance Office.
“We see T-X as a market for about 2,600 aircraft in addition to ground-based trainers and other support and services,” Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says.
NASA is soliciting input from U.S. companies on requirements for commercially re-supplying the human-tended, lunar-orbiting Gateway it plans to begin assembling in 2022.
Rather than NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who were aboard the aborted Oct. 11 flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Roscosmos will fly the previously scheduled crew.
The FAA will evaluate Iridium’s new Certus satellite broadband service before approving it for Future Air Navigation System (FANS)-based communications between pilots and air traffic controllers in oceanic airspace.
The 18-month, €40 million ($46 million) study will examine the architecture and technologies required for the successor ship to the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle.
India has awarded a $777 million contract to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to supply the maritime version of its Barak 8 air and missile defense systems for seven ships of the Indian navy.
The Boeing Co., Layton, Utah, has been awarded a $55,567,613 undefinitized, firm-price incentive-fee contract, for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Cryptography Upgrade Increment II production.
Brazil’s civil aviation authority (ANAC) has approved the type certificate for the Embraer KC-390, a key step towards a scheduled full operational capability milestone next year, company and government officials said.
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton told reporters in Moscow that the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty will be formalized in “due course."
Global Eagle Entertainment said it has demonstrated communications at broadband speeds between an aircraft and a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite for the first time.
Strong organic sales in both its Pratt and Whitney and UTC Aerospace Systems businesses helped push United Technologies Corp. revenues up 10% in the third quarter.
Bell’s V-280 Valor advanced tiltrotor has reached 250 kt. airspeed as it continues to make progress under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstration.
Dassault is exhibiting a small-scale model of the “New-Generation Fighter” France and Germany intend to build as a successor to the Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
The move stems from a report prepared by the ministry’s internal security office pointing to some highly classified IAI programs that will have to get “special protection” once shares are floated in the market.
