Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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An Ariane 5 launcher is scheduled to propel four Galileo satellites into orbit on Nov. 17, marking the first-ever quadruple launch for the navigation constellation.

The Western aerospace & defense sector is likely to be in shock for months to come as it tries to figure out what a Trump administration means.

Defense Conseil International, the French defense ministry’s international training company, is planning to expand its helicopter fleet to meet foreign training demands.

India is progressing toward launching its second lunar exploration mission, Chandrayaan-2, with the start of some ground tests and other events planned in the coming months.

A Denver-based startup is drawing investor attention with plans for a relatively inexpensive mass-produced spacecraft bus that would use a proprietary “isolation system” to enable its use with any payload in its weight class on any launch vehicle.

Turkey has not only managed to field indigenous armed UAVs but has also sent them into harm’s way.

AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Maryland, was awarded a $206,561,704 cost-plus-fixed-fee foreign military sales (Australia) contract.

As all eyes watch the U.S. presidential election Tuesday, space advocates agree that Congress will have a big role to play in the inevitable space policy debate that will follow.

RAYTHEON has $177.9m U.S. Navy contract for 186 Evolved Seasparrow Block I missiles, plus spares and support. Includes foreign military sales to Spain, Thailand, UAE.

NASA’s Langley Research Center plans to purchase ADS-B In avionics for three Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900ERs, in order to begin operational testing of a NASA-developed fuel- and time-saving software application in revenue operations, starting in early 2017.

A consortium of BAE Systems and other local partners will play a key role in the support of the F-35 in the Pacific region.

Mars One has signed a takeover agreement in which InFin Innovative Finance AG of Switzerland will acquire all shares of Mars One Ventures, PLC, the British arm of the Red Planet colonization venture.

India’s Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved a proposal to buy 83 indigenous Tejas Mk. 1-A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) for the Indian air force (IAF) at a cost of 500.25 billion rupees ($7.5 billion).

Bell Helicopter is preparing to support assembly of the Bell 407GXP in China as part of a prospective sale of 100 of the rotorcraft.

Chinese company Nanshan Aluminum will supply aerospace-grade aluminum plate to Boeing, taking a key step in accessing the global market.

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NOAA’s next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-R, postponed planned Nov. 16 launch from Cape Canaveral, FL, to Nov. 19 due to an issue with UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE’s Atlas V launcher. BOEING has $478.8m U.S. Air Force contract for F-15 Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS) engineering and manufacturing development.

The U.S. Commerce Department is organizing a defense and security industry trade mission to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, with at least 17 small and midsized companies joining the junket

Earth scientists using NASA spacecraft are turning to small satellites as funding lags for larger platforms.

A consortium of Britain’s Defense Electronics and Components Agency (DECA), BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman has secured a key F-35 maintenance and support contract.

Major Chinese space contractor CASC is developing a reusable rocket engine that burns methane with liquid oxygen.

Avic’s Chengdu fighter works is aiming for a range of 8,050 km (5,000 mi.) for a proposed business jet.

Study looks for weapon to attack ships and land targets in 2030s. But don’t call it a cruise missile just yet.

Avic plans to offer a civil freighter version of the Y-20, apparently with a high-bypass engine that has been under development for the military transport.