In this week’s Washington Outlook, research funding for advanced helicopter engines; the SpaceX-ULA spat; managing risk at the border and the hunt for counter-UAV technology.
Hurricane Matthew strengthened to a “monster” Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph on Oct. 6 as it approached Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
NASA will evaluate an assortment of secondary science and technically themed payload proposals as part of Exploration Mission-2, the first crewed test flight of the Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew capsule.
Stratolaunch Systems and Orbital ATK have formed a partnership to use the six-engined, 385-ft.-span Stratolaunch carrier aircraft for air-launching up to three Pegasus XL vehicles on a single mission.
After satellite separation, an experiment was run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus Safran Launchers that will help with Ariane 6 development.
The Norwegian government has requested authorization to buy 12 additional Lockheed Martin F-35s in its 2017 national budget, allowing the country to participate in the last two years of a proposed international block buy.
Textron AirLand’s Scorpion jet, housed at Textron Aviation facilities in Wichita, is a potential military opportunity for Textron, Jefferies equity analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote in a note to investors.
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, the country’s state-owned aircraft producer, is closing its largest export deal to sell as many as 100 Super Mushshak training aircraft to Turkey.
In this week’s roundup, U.S. Army upgrades Hellfires; Philippines receive Korean light attack aircraft; Romania accepts Portugese F-16s; managing space traffic.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and adjacent Patrick AFB, home to Cape Canaveral, released all but nonessential personnel on Oct. 5 as Hurricane Matthew churned through the Caribbean.
Hybrid Air Vehicles, the manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, says it is confident that damage caused by a heavy landing on the aircraft’s second post-rebuild flight could be repaired in 3-4 months.
GE Aviation is positioning itself to offer a 5,000-10,000 shp-class Future Affordable Engine Technology (FATE) turboshaft engine for the U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift program.
Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) has received a new contract for the U.S. Army’s Alternate Concept Engine (ACE) program.
Triumph Group has sold its Newport News, Virginia, aerospace systems business unit and Force Measurement Systems division in San Diego to privately owned aerospace and automotive research company Calspan.
India will launch Resourcesat 2A—the latest in a series of the country’s Earth observation satellites—in November, an attempt toward bolstering its weather prediction capabilities.
The outgoing chief of the U.S. “Mighty Eighth” Air Force has thrown his support behind a reengining of the Pratt & Whitney TF33 turbofan-powered Boeing B-52 heavy bomber.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-R, is set to launch early next month.
