Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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Darpa has demonstrated algorithms that could enable small commercial drones to become autonomous scouts in urban battle zones or searchers for survivors inside buildings damaged by natural disasters.

Small satellite startup Terran Orbital has raised $36 million from investors, including Pentagon prime Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. Air Force has issued a notice of proposed contract action for light attack aircraft and is limiting the competition to Sierra Nevada and Textron.

A new report by Grand View Research estimates the global aerospace and defense materials market will reach $27.44 billion by 2025.

Israel Aerospace Industries is quietly developing a “soft kill” interceptor that will work in conjunction with the company’s Drone Guard counter-UAS system.

The five F-35s touched down after dusk at Marham on Aug. 3, joining the four aircraft that arrived in June.

The DOD is prohibiting personnel from using geolocation features and functionality on both government and nongovernment issued devices, apps and services while in operational areas.

Launch broker Spaceflight has begun integrating 71 satellites for a dedicated smallsat mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this fall.

India and Arianespace will try again to launch the country’s heaviest comm sat, GSAT-11, on Nov. 30, almost four months after its first planned liftoff.

Astronomers have gathered occultation observations of the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, the target destination for a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Venezuela’s government says two explosive-laden multi-copters were used in an apparent failed assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential Latvian Foreign Military Sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopters.

BOEING has $186.2m U.S. Navy contract for F/A-18 aircraft spare parts.

German aerospace center DLR has tested food delivery by drone in hard-to-reach areas with flights of its SuperARTIS autonomous helicopter in the Dominican Republic.

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An outstanding issue with refueling U.S. Navy aircraft could cause yet another delay in Boeing's KC-46 tanker program.

Darpa has launched a project to mature flow control technologies to a level where they can be designed into next-generation aircraft to eliminate the need for moving control surfaces.

The U.S. Navy is accepting white papers from industry to inform a next-generation propulsion and power technology assessment.

A provision in the fiscal 2019 defense policy bill that blocks the transfer of Lockheed Martin F-35s to Turkey has cleared the full Senate and now awaits U.S. President Donald Trump’s signature.

Five veteran and three first-time NASA astronauts have been named to lift off on four history-making U.S. spaceflights that will end the long hiatus in the nation’s ability to launch astronauts on its own vehicles.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Aug. 2 that the funding would support the building of a production line in Ankara for the indigenous fighter program.

SpaceX recovery vessels gathered in the Pacific Ocean off Baja, California, late Aug. 3 to recover the company’s 15th Dragon cargo vessel.

The Juno graphene research aircraft is a follow-on to the UCLan’s Prospero UAV, which first flew in 2015 with a graphene wing skin.

As part of preparations for the naval version of India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to begin aircraft carrier operations, the indigenous fighter has undergone tests to check its arrestor hook system.