Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

In development since 2013, the 4-lb. (1.8-kg) Mars Helicopter will be a second major technology demonstration conducted during the Mars 2020 mission, which is scheduled for launch in July 2020 and a February 2021 landing.

Leaders of specialty products provider Esterline Technologies, which provides components for a number of commercial aircraft programs, have indicated they do not see other immediate troubled assets that should be sold off as the company recently did with the Kirkhill elastomers unit to TransDigm Group.

The debut of the newest and final version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 marks a milestone in the company’s long-term quest to drive down launch costs.

Indonesian Aerospace has received an order for two additional C235 maritime patrollers for the Indonesian Navy, adding to five already ordered.

Researchers will try to take potentially far-reaching steps in a range of scientific fields with the next resupply mission to the International Space Station.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN delivered electronic warfare simulation equipment for F-35 training to Point Mugu, CA.

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Researchers at the Rand Corp. foresee a number of risks coming with the rise of 3D printing, including the possibility that committed hackers could alter 3D-printing blueprints.

SpaceX said the rocket and its payload, a communications satellite for Bangladesh, are healthy. Friday’s launch window opens at 4:14 p.m. EDT and closes at 6:21 pm.

A Bell V-280 Valor virtual flight simulator is the centerpiece of Bell’s new Advanced Vertical Lift Center in downtown Arlington.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said making sure Airbus and Boeing are held to the same requirements or given the same opportunities in any Iranian aircraft sales will be the top priority now that President Donald Trump is withdrawing from the so-called Iranian nuclear deal.

The long saga of leasing the Israeli-made Heron-TP UAV to Germany may soon come to an end.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out one of its most massive air attacks in years on May 9.

The Avic Xian Y-20 Chinese airlifter has taken a step toward full operational capability with its first airdrop of supplies.

A private Chinese company says it will launch its first rocket, a suborbital research vehicle, around May 17.

SpaceX remains on track to begin vertical takeoff and landing testing of the upper stage of its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) in 2019.

A House subcommittee quickly marked up a $62.5 billion fiscal 2019 spending bill late May 9 that includes more than $21.5 billion for NASA.

India’s state-run space agency has built an atomic clock that will fly in an upcoming indigenous navigation satellite.

Futuristic designs for inner city air vehicle terminals, or Skyports, which will serve uberAIR’s aerial rideshare system in the 2020s have been unveiled.

Uber is inviting international cities to bid to become the first global test site of the company’s proposed uberAIR aerial rideshare program.

BELL has $21.7m U.S. Navy contract for seven Bell 407 variant commercial airframes through fiscal 2020 for the MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV.

Chipmaker Intel is carving itself a growing niche in the commercial unmanned aircraft market, introducing industrial UAVs for automated inspection and mapping.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has revealed the governments that her department has selected to take part in the UAS Integration Pilot Program.

Australia is holding course on its military spending buildup.

An intercept test of the Arrow-3 to be performed in Alaska to adapt the hit-to-kill missile interceptor to evolving threats has been indefinitely delayed,