Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

British smallsat launcher firm Skyrora is planning to use additive manufactured engines for its Skyrora XL smallsat launcher.

India’s state-run space agency has successfully conducted a test of Vikram, the lander for the country’s second lunar mission planned for early next year.

Senior British officials say there is “great interest” from potential international partners in the UK’s vision to develop a sixth-generation fighter.

The SkyPerfect JSAT Corp. has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a contract to deliver Ka-band gateways for JCSAT’s 18-satellite constellation.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries San Diego Shipyard Inc., San Diego, a $44,779,160 firm-fixed-price contract.

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Oct. 26 that a new strategy to shift the task of screening raw intelligence data from humans to machines will face internal opposition.

Contitech USA Inc., Fairlawn, Ohio, has been awarded a maximum $20,151,800 firm-fixed-price contract for M109 vehicle tracks.

Embattled General Electric's aerospace engine-making division remains a bright spot.

NASA’s pioneering Kepler space telescope is out of fuel, bringing its 9 1/2-year mission to an end.

The assets of once-high-flying drone startup company Airware are being bought by another drone-based services upstart called Delair.

Aerospace, defense and automotive supplier Arconic has delayed but expanded the scope of a long-awaited strategic review of options for the embattled company.

The Israeli Air Force has presented its operational needs for new aircraft to the general staff of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Europe’s RemoveDebris satellite has tested its onboard vision-based navigation (VBN).

A Chinese Long March 2C launcher placed CFOSat, a Sino-French satellite dedicated to oceanography and climate change understanding, into orbit on Oct. 29.

SESAR, Europe’s public-private partnership for airspace technology research, has launched a series of demonstrations.

Two companies have won contracts to test the feasibility of delivering vaccines by drone to remote islands in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

NASA’s near-Earth asteroid-bound Osiris-Rex spacecraft braked for a third time this month on Oct. 29, slowing an approach to its sample return target, Bennu.

Small-sat launch service provider Rocket Lab has added a last-minute customer to the manifest for its upcoming commercial Electron mission in November.

BOEING has $131.6m U.S. Navy contract for procurement/upgrade of weapon replaceable assemblies for Block I low-rate initial production F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track systems.

Spirit AeroSystems is withdrawing its application for European Commission approval of its acquisition of Asco Industries so it can address a hang-up.

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied Raytheon’s bid protest for the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Jammer tech demo for the low-band frequency.

The Hubble Space Telescope has resumed science operations following more than three weeks of troubleshooting involving its gyroscopes.

A fault in the third-stage attitude control system appears to have caused the failure of the initial launch attempt of China’s first privately developed orbital space launcher.

Pictures of a Kamov design for an advanced attack helicopter have appeared on a Russian website.