Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

TOUCHDOWN: A computer-vision system developed by Astrobotic Technology has guided a Xombie vertical takeoff/landing suborbital rocket to a safe

The F-35A that caught fire June 23 was a recent delivery from low-rate initial production lot 5 of the stealthy fighter. Ninety-five F-35s have been

Can a portable, removable robotics kit be developed to automate cockpit tasks and allow existing aircraft to operate with reduced crew? The Defense

A report from the Task Force on Drone Policy is questioning whether U.S. export restrictions on UAVs are achieving their aim. “It is unclear whether U

HOUSTON — NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate has secured a second round of launch dates from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility

NEW DELHI — India will begin sea trials of its indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant within the next few weeks, marking the country’s next

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The U.S. aeromodeling community has reacted strongly against the FAA’s interpretation of legislation designed to protect model aircraft operators from

KRAKOW, Poland — Poland’s territorial defense strategy has always been about one overriding threat: Russia. And with Russian forces massing at the

ST. LOUIS — Winning the U.S. Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike (Uclass) program is a “long-term strategic play” for Boeing

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The Pentagon expects to pay significantly less than originally estimated for retrofits to the first 10 lots of stealthy F-35s produced by Lockheed

The U.S. Air Force granted Raytheon “extended debriefings” for the company’s loss of a major space surveillance system to answer questions that could

F-35 FIRE: A pilot is safe after an emergency egress June 23 from an F-35A that caught fire while preparing for takeoff at Eglin Air Force Base

HOUSTON — As of June 24, NASA’s Curiosity rover has logged one Martian year – 687 Earth days – on the surface of the red planet. The $2.5 billion

LONDON — The U.K. arm of European charter airline Thomas Cook is set to lease a demilitarized Airbus A330 tanker from the AirTanker consortium. AirTanker, which owns and operates the A330 Voyager Multi-Role Tanker Transports (MRTTs) for the U.K. Royal Air Force, has signed a letter of intent with Thomas Cook for an initial three-year leasing deal that will involve at least one of the consortium’s A330s having its military equipment removed and a new interior installed to support Thomas Cook’s growing long-haul network.

Engineers at Aerojet Rocketdyne have repeatedly fired a 5,000-lb.-thrust LOX/kerosene engine fabricated from three components built up with additive

HOUSTON — World View Enterprises, Inc. claims an altitude record for parafoil flight as part of a recent 5-hr. subscale shakedown of the commercial

The U.S. Navy is working on better communications equipment and systems for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS 1) USS Freedom and follow-on hulls following

BUCKEBURG, Germany — The Germany army has begun a search for a small fleet of basic training helicopters to train its pilots to autorotate to the

Finmeccanica is reining in some of its relatively independent operating companies to become divisions of the parent group. Italy’s defense and

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Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center are in the final stages of preparation for a series of liquid-hydrogen fill and loads tests with a 5.5-meter diameter composite cryogenic fuel tank that may help save production cost and increase performance on future launch vehicles, including NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS).

With nearly 100 hr. of flight testing under its belt, the Scorpion demonstrator will make a seven-stop trip to the U.K. in preparation for its international debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough, both outside London next month.

TAX DODGING: Language in the House’s annual spending bill is looking to keep Pentagon contracts from going to U.S. companies that shift their