Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
Pratt & Whitney Canada is to provide the powerplant for Russian Helicopters’ new VRT500 light helicopter.

By Angus Batey
Raytheon says its Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) will be cleared to fly on the F-35A within days.
Defense

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has contracted MBDA to integrate the Meteor long-range air-to-air missile on the KF-X indigenous fighter.

The U.S. Army awarded BOEING $10 million Foreign Military Sales contract to integrate and retrofit 24 AH-6i light attack helicopters with a digital video recorder and the laser-guided Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System for Saudi Arabia.

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., Rockville, Maryland, has been awarded a $104,775,349 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts to the winners of four prize challenges for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX) for four individual mission payloads.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Insitu has developed a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system with a satellite communications antenna for beyond-line-of-sight operations, the Boeing subsidiary says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the first locally-assembled T-70 Black Hawk helicopter to be built under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP).
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The program’s goal is to renew France’s capability in electromagnetic signal intelligence, notably the interception of voice radio communications and radar waves.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
The NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The next trend in sats is multiuse constellations, typically combining telecoms and Earth observation, says Guy Perez, sat manufacturer OHB chief tech officer and head of telecoms sats.
Program Management

By Bradley Perrett
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has contracted MBDA to integrate the Meteor long-range air-to-air missile on the KF-X indigenous fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Designed to help a geostationary satellite reach its final orbit or deliver constellation spacecraft into more orbital planes, among other potential uses.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s Stratodynamics Aviation, which in September set a record by releasing an unmanned glider from a stratospheric balloon at 11,434 ft., is to conduct research flights for NASA under a contract awarded to the University of Kentucky.
Defense

By Bill Carey
House lawmakers are calling on the FAA to preserve airspace safety and efficiency as it develops a regulation to simplify launch and re-entry requirements for commercial space operators.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper asked for Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s resignation Nov. 24 due to what the top U.S. defense official said was a loss of confidence.
Defense

Spirit AeroSystems professional and technical employees represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace have received an offer of a new, six-year contract.

The U.S. NAVY has awarded PRATT & WHITNEY ENGINES a $762 million contract modification.

By Graham Warwick
Airframe vibration led the control system on Aurora Flight Sciences’ Pegasus passenger air vehicle to shut down the lift motors during landing, causing the eVTOL prototype to crash, the preliminary report into the June 4 accident says.

By Lee Hudson
The Government Accountability (GAO) office defended the U.S. Air Force’s National Security Space Launch procurement in three areas outlined in a protest filed by Blue Origin.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
A competition has opened between L3Harris and Northrop Grumman to upgrade the self-protection jamming systems on hundreds of U.S. Air Force F-16s.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
Omega Air took delivery of the first of two former Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 aircraft that they could potentially use to provide a tanking service to the U.S. Air Force.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Eyeing potential opportunities for F-35 sales in Spain, Portugal and elsewhere, Lockheed Martin aims to eventually produce 4,000 of the fifth-generation fighters, a company official said Nov. 21.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Two spacewalking astronauts teamed for the second of four planned spacewalks outside the ISS on Nov. 22 to advance an upgrade of the thermal control system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A Pakistani company has entered the high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) business with a platform it believes can sell at one-tenth the cost of systems like Airbus’ Zephyr.
Defense