Indian defense ministry aircraft designers have frozen the configuration of a proposed medium-weight Indian fighter that they expect to fly early in the 2020s.
Developed and built for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission, Sentinel-2A is designed to image the Earth’s landmass from an orbit at 786 km (488.4 mi.) altitude for a design life of 7-12 years.
Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.
Brazilian light aircraft company Novaer is looking for further investment to develop its new modular training aircraft for the commercial and military market.
The company, a subsidiary of MDA Corp of Canada, is best known for supplying large commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellites but is actively exploring new territory, company President John Celli says.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program estimates a four-five month delay in delivering the aircraft’s fully functional software package and is working to recover that slippage.
To fulfill its NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, the company says it is on track with plans to use a United Launch Alliance Atlas V to lift its next Cygnus pressurized cargo carrier to the station this fall.
Russian Helicopters has delivered 141 Mi-17 V5 helicopters so far, since India ordered 80 Mi-17 V5 helos from Russia in 2008 for about $1.2 billion, followed by an additional order of 71 helos in 2012.
As the Newport News Shipbuilding unit of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) works on completing the CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the company and U.S. Navy are working out further contract details for the building of CVN 79.
The Boeing Talon Hate pod, which is designed to provide that connectivity, was requested by Pacific Air Forces as a quick-reaction project needed to link the stealthy F-22 with legacy fighters.
The second of three 6-to-7-hr. spacewalks intended to extend power, data and heater cables to the first of the docking ports for use by Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s crewed Dragon is scheduled to get underway early Feb. 25.
Officials from the four Typhoon partner nations – Germany, Italy, Spain and the U.K. – inked an agreement at the IDEX 2015 defense show in Abu Dhabi on Feb. 22 to update the fighter with the Phase 3 Enhancements (P3E) package.
CAE, which is best known for its expertise in flight simulators, believes that integrating live flying training with its simulation products can provide a broader capability to its customers.
ShinMaywa will probably choose a private local partner to help build the aircraft for the Indian navy, and perhaps make parts for export. Local content is the key issue to be settled before a contract.
The armed version will feature the stub-winged Crashworthy External Fuel System (CEFS) and carry a range of armaments including forward-firing guns, unguided rockets and the Hellfire missile.
NorthStar Aviation, based in the UAE but employing a largely expatriate engineering team, has developed the Bell 407MRH – Multi-Role Helicopter – out of Bell’s upgraded 407GX.
Thales U.K. says it could deliver its system for Britain’s carrier organic helicopter-borne airborne early warning requirement 12 months early, eliminating a potential capability gap and reducing training costs.
