Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

AIRBUS has taken full ownership of SEPANG AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING, an MRO center based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Latvia ordered three of the long-range air surveillance radars in 2015, and the first two are now fully built.

The Indonesian Navy’s chief of staff, Adm. Ade Supandi, accepted delivery of the three aircraft at a ceremony at the Juanda naval airbase in Surabaya on Oct. 13.

About 30 gigabytes of sensitive data were stolen from a small Australian defense contractor, including details on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 and C-130 transport aircraft, and Boeing’s P-8 and Joint Direct Attack Munition smart bomb.

Mysterious new issues are causing British aerospace and structures manufacturer GKN to warn about financial shortcomings at its Aerospace and automotive-focused Driveline business units.

Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have launched the air surveillance operations to complement existing maritime patrols in an area that overlaps the territorial waters of each country.

Airbus Helicopters has detailed the work it has carried out to resolve five potential root causes of the loss of an H225 helicopter in the North Sea in April 2016.

New Zealand-based utility aircraft manufacturer Pacific Aerospace has pleaded guilty to indirectly exporting aircraft parts to North Korea.

A Spanish Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon pilot was killed when his aircraft crashed while returning from a flyby over Madrid.

BOEING has $42.4m U.S. Navy contract for P-8A Poseidon aircraft stores management system. Work completed by November 2020.

The U.S. Air Force has accepted the first GPS III satellite from Lockheed Martin, declaring it ready for its scheduled launch in 2018.

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The MV-22 Osprey recently completed its first roundtrip Pacific crossing.

Virgin Galactic aims to fly SpaceShipTwo beyond the atmosphere for the first time before year’s end, kicking off what is expected to be a final round of test flights before beginning commercial suborbital space tourism and research flights.

The planned Oct. 12 launch of the latest Progress cargo capsule to the International Station was halted moments before liftoff at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Airbus Helicopters wants the U.S. military services to consider adopting the latest military variant of the civil EC145, the H145M.

Space market research specialist Euroconsult is forecasting 300 satellites weighing more than 50 kg (110 lb.) will be launched every year until 2026.

The Pentagon's new top weapons buyer hopes to offload day-to-day oversight of most major acquisition programs from the department--with a few exceptions.

The Bangladesh Navy has decided to buy two more new Ruag Aviation Dornier 228 aircraft.

NASA is investigating whether angling an aircraft’s outboard wing sections up or down can increase yaw stability and control and reduce rudder size and tail drag, thus saving fuel.

Lockheed Martin has thrown its support behind the Trump administration’s ambitious goal of putting U.S. boots back on the Moon.

Eutelsat 172B, the first European-built all-electric satellite, has reached geostationary orbit in just more than fourth months, allowing manufacturer Airbus and operator Eutelsat to claim a new record.

Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites has flown its latest experimental aircraft, the Model 401, built for an unspecified “proprietary customer” to demonstrate low-cost manufacturing techniques.