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By Tony Osborne
Making Airbus the Spanish lead for the development of the European Future Combat Air System would have relegated Spanish industry to “tasks of lower added value,” Indra’s chairman and CEO says.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
China will launch a prototype of its new crewed spacecraft in April, the government’s Xinhua news agency reported, two months after the rocket to be used for the mission returned to service following a 2017 failure.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The first depot maintenance job on a Pratt & Whitney F135 module outside the U.S. has been performed by TAE Aerospace, the Australian company that is supporting the engine in the Asia-Pacific region.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) will upgrade its main northern base, in part to support U.S. operations there.
Defense

By Bradley Perrett
Australia and Boeing are declining to disclose exactly where the company and its suppliers are building prototypes for the Airpower Teaming System (ATS), a loyal-wingman drone program that could lead to production of at least hundreds of units.
Defense

News in brief
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

Defense

By Lee Hudson
Congress intends to keep “very tight eyes” on the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift, which needs to cost below $10,000 per flight hour to be effective, according to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).
Defense

By Mark Carreau
A flurry of nine small satellites has been successfully deployed from the International Space Station, after having been launched to the orbiting science lab aboard SpaceX Dragon and Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply missions in early December and November.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
A National Academies study of advanced aerial mobility requested by NASA concludes the commercial cargo market is likely to be an early adopter of autonomous air vehicle technology for rural cargo operations, including “middle mile” distribution and “last mile” package deliveries.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
As the U.S. Army pursues an aggressive schedule to downselect to two vendors for an armed aerial scout replacement by the end of March, Sikorsky is arguing the company’s S-97 Raider-X is an affordable option for the service.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Operations in Germany will be hardest hit, with 800 jobs lost.
Defense

News in brief
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
If Astra succeeds in placing the DARPA-provided payload into low Earth orbit by March 1, Astra will win $2 million and an opportunity to launch a second time and take the grand prize of $10 million.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Elbit Systems announced on Feb. 18 the winning of a $670 million contract that it could describe only cryptically as a “defense solution” for a country in the Asia-Pacific region.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Roscomos cites unspecified medical issues in its decision to replace both freshman cosmonauts due to launch to the space station in April.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
China is testing an intercontinental-range hypersonic glide vehicle similar to Russian’s deployed Avangard system, U.S. Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy said in written testimony submitted to Congress.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The Super Hornet is the last of the five Western types participating in the trials.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Cadence Aerospace, a private equity-backed rollup of highly complex structural and engine component and assembly businesses, on Feb. 18 announced the acquisition of Premier Processing
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Plans for a satellite launch center on Britain’s Shetland Islands have been boosted by £2 million ($2.6 million) in funding from a private equity firm.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
Rocket Factory Augsburg, part of Germany’s OHB group, is progressing toward the first flight of its mini-launcher late next year.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA is awarding eight competitively selected U.S. university teams nearly $1 million in grants to develop lunar payload concepts for the study of permanently shadowed regions of the Moon that could contain significant deposits of water ice.
Defense

Selected U.S. military contracts for Feb. 10 U.S. AIR FORCE SigmaTech Corp., Colorado Springs, has been awarded a hybrid labor hour and firm-fixed
Defense