Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Sept, 10

Italy looks set to become the second nation to join Britain’s Tempest future fighter development project.

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HAPSMobile, the joint venture between AeroVironment and Japan’s SoftBank, is preparing to fly the Hawk30 high-altitude pseudo-satellite at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards AFB in California. 

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The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee has advanced the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request and would provide the Defense Department with $694.9 billion in accordance with the 2019 Bipartisan Budget Act.

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The development schedule of Europe’s medium- to heavy-lift Ariane 6 launcher has been delayed, with the first launch now foreseen by the end of 2020, Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel says.

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A fire broke out during final preparations for launch of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIB rocket carrying a cargo ship to the International Space Station for JAXA.

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BAE Systems says it has reached an agreement to purchase British startup Prismatic, a high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) manufacturer.

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The simulated war game, dubbed the HX Challenge, will “verify what the candidates have said and promised in their answers,” the program director says.

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