Germany is preparing to begin a search for a successor to its long-serving fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion helicopters, and it may not have to look very far.
The Canadian armed forces are working to secure funding for life-extension programs for their fleet of CH-146 Griffon utility helicopters and CH-149 Cormorant search and rescue helicopters.
U.K. defense officials are studying inflight refueling of helicopters in order to meet commitments set out in last year’s Strategic Defense and Security Review (SDSR).
NASA’s First Landing Site/Exploration Zone Workshop for Human Missions to the Surface of Mars is already influencing the agency’s evolving efforts to reach the Red Planet with astronauts in two decades.
A Russo-Chinese cooperative program for an unusually large helicopter should move into full-scale development, with an agreement due to be signed this year.
While avoiding a direct reply to a December memo by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter questioning the Navy’s reliance of presence over posture, service Secretary Ray Mabus says there is little differentiating between the two for those under his charge.
A multinational study to upgrade the Airbus Tiger attack helicopter will focus on the use of a common precision-guided missile to be used by the four operating nations.
U.S. Navy Southwest Regional Maintenance Center divers have successfully completed the replacement of a damaged control pitch propeller blade and the “grooming” of another blade on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer DDG 106 USS Stockdale.
The second member of China’s new space launch family, Long March 7, is due to fly in June, with the third, Long March 5, following in late September or early October.
Russian Helicopters sees Avic as eager to begin a second Russo-Chinese cooperative helicopter production program, under which the small Mil Mi-34 would be built in China for the local market.
For the first time, India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas flew over foreign airspace to participate in the upcoming Bahrain Airshow, as the country prepares to showcase the indigenous fighter aircraft for international customers.
CPI AEROSTRUCTURES has $25-30m contract from NORTHROP GRUMMAN to supply structural components/kits for the Outer Wing Panel on E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control aircraft for Japan. OSHKOSH DEFENSE CANADA filed challenge with Canadian International Trade Tribunal of Public Works and Government Services Canada’s Medium Support Vehicle System Standard Military Pattern (MSVS SMP) procurement contract decision.
EDRS-A, the first orbital component in the European Space Agency’s Space Data Highway high-speed laser communications system, is slated to be launched to geostationary orbit aboard an ILS Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Jan. 28. The Space Data Highway will provide communications at up to 1.8 Gigabit per second, capable of relaying data from “Earth observation satellites, UAVs and surveillance aircraft, or even from a space station such as the ISS,” industrial partner Airbus Defense & Space says.
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Monday, Jan. 18. The next issue will be dated Jan. 20.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 20-22—AHS Technical Meeting on Aeromechanics Design for Vertical Lift, Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, California. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/aeromechanics-design-for-vertical-lift
SpaceX successfully launched the Jason-3 ocean altimetry mission to low Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket Jan. 17, though an attempt to land the vehicle's core stage on a barge in the Pacific Ocean was unsuccessful.
ARLINGTON, Virginia — Raytheon recently completed the first full array for its AN/SPY- 6(V) Air And Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) in 140 days. the company says.
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) believes its Dream Chaser vehicle’s capability and the billions it will earn delivering supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) will allow the company to complete development of a human-rated version.
NASA abruptly halted a planned 6 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station by U.S. and U.K. astronauts Tim Kopra and Tim Peake on Jan. 15 when water appeared in the helmet of Kopra’s NASA spacesuit.
Orbital ATK plans to start ground tests next year of first elements for an all-new, next-generation launch vehicle to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will spend €5.25 billion ($5.75 billion) this year, an increase over the €4.43 billion the agency spent last year that includes a boost in funding from the European Commission.
