The office of Brazil’s new president said he would not block Boeing’s proposed purchase of 80% of Embraer’s commercial business, or a separate joint venture to sell KC-390s.
David Thompson, co-founder of Orbital Sciences, has been chosen to receive the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s National Space Trophy.
The USAF has accepted the first KC-46A from Boeing after it agreed to fix deficiencies discovered in developmental testing of the Remote Vision System.
Airbus said it “achieved 800 commercial aircraft deliveries” in 2018, thus concluding the year in a close finish against Boeing, which handed over 806 commercial aircraft.
Transport Canada on Jan. 9 announced new rules governing the use of small unmanned aircraft that introduce basic and advanced categories of drone operations.
Indonesian Aerospace has received an order for eight Airbus H225M and nine Bell 412EPI helicopters from the country’s defense ministry, the company said.
Dassault Aviation delivered 12 Rafale fighter jets in 2018, including three jets delivered to France and nine elsewhere, compared to nine deliveries in 2017.
The joint venture with Airbus Defense and Space has begun to manufacture more than 900 smallsats for OneWeb and has secured the first potential outside customer for its Arrow platform—DARPA.
The National Space Club and Foundation has named ex-acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot Jr. the winner of the 2019 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
