Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Mark Carreau
While a NASA anomaly review board continues to troubleshoot a gyroscope issue with the 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, a second case of the mechanical pointing system malady also appears to be responsible for sending the Chandra X-ray Observatory into “safe mode.”
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A British F-35 test pilot has performed a ship-borne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) onto the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier for the first time.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Belgium is to sell its Dassault Alpha Jet jet trainer fleet as it transitions its pilot training over to the U.S.
Defense

ROLLS-ROYCE has $100m U.S. Air Force contract for Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission-Capability (ATTAM) Phase I.

Former deputy sergeant-at-arms for the U.S. Senate James Morhard has been confirmed as NASA’s new deputy administrator.

India has tested the cryogenic engine for its heaviest rocket, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 3, that is due to launch the country’s second lunar mission early next year.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Australian engine manufacturer Orbital UAV has signed a long-term agreement with Insitu to provide propulsion systems for use across its range of UAS.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
A series of live fire trials have pitted Leonardo’s Miysis directed infrared countermeasures system against potential man-portable surface-to-air missiles.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The combined company would be named L3 Harris Technologies and would be the sixth largest defense company in the U.S. and a top 10 defense company globally.
Defense

View the Fleet Snapshot: European Military Jet Trainers And Light Combat Aircraft chart in PDF format.

Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system interceptor.

BOEING announced investment in satellite propulsion startup ACCION SYSTEMS INC. of Boston, which produces Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray in-space propulsion system.

By Lee Hudson
Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan says there are two concurrent efforts concerning military space within the Pentagon: space reorganization and doctrine.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
The next month or so is expected to be big for followers of aerospace and defense supplier Arconic.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
DynCorp CEO George Krivo discusses how the military and logistics services company has worked to stabilize itself through boom and bust cycles in the industry.

By Graham Warwick
Singapore-based fuel-cell producer HES Energy Systems has unveiled its concept for a hydrogen-electric four-seat regional aircraft, building on its experience developing hydrogen propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft.

By Molly McMillin
Ron Draper, Textron Aviation senior vice president of integrated supply chain, has been named president and CEO of the Wichita aircraft manufacturer.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Bell is to collaborate with Japanese package-delivery company Yamato on aerial logistics using electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned aircraft.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has rolled out the first pre-series model of the L-39NG jet trainer.
Defense

By Guy Norris
General Electric is working with CargoLogicAir on a detailed study to re-engine the cargo operator’s fleet of Antonov An-124 freighters with the CF6-80C2 turbofan.
Defense

Bruce N. Whitman, chairman, president and CEO of FlightSafety International, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Oct. 10 after a brief period of failing health.

RUSSIAN NAVY’s Baltic Fleet took delivery of five recently modernized Ka-27M ASW helicopters Oct. 5.

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By Mark Carreau
NASA intends to conduct its own inquiry into the Oct. 11 Soyuz MS-10 launch abort.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace and defense suppliers have a “very bullish” outlook, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst Ken Herbert and his latest supply chain survey.
Defense