Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been selected by Global Air Navigation Services (GANS) to provide aircraft arresting systems to the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense. Under the contract, valued at approximately $19 million, Curtiss-Wright will provide specialized arresting systems supporting both tailhook and non-tailhook equipped aircraft. “As a leading global supplier of military aircraft arresting systems,Read More

Honeywell and Helint are to provide regional support for helicopter and fixed-wing operators in Eastern Africa. The collaboration will bring Honeywell’s latest technologies and world-class customer service support to customers in eastern Africa. Commercial fixed-wing and helicopter operators, private owners and government agencies will have access to Honeywell’s latest technology and support through Helint, allowingRead More

SpaceX launched the second of two satellites for Eutelsat to replenish one of the largest broadcast systems in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. A Falcon 9 carrying the Hotbird 13G satellite for the French operator lifted off at 1:22 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The all-electric satellite separated from the rocket inRead More

The National Reconnaissance Office plans to continue to sign agreements with commercial satellite imaging operators. The next round of contracts will be for hyperspectral satellite data, Jeremy Banik, deputy director of the NRO Commercial Systems Program Office said. “I’m excited to say we’re finishing the RFP [request for proposals] for commercial hyperspectral remote sensing,” BanikRead More

Four of the six O3b mPower broadband satellites that SES had planned to launch this year with SpaceX won’t be ready until early 2023, the operator said as it recorded strong growth in its networks business. While a launch for the first pair of O3b mPower satellites has been “locked in” for December, SES CEORead More

Virgin Galactic’s second suborbital spaceplane won’t enter service in 2023 as previously planned because of demands on company personnel to both return the first spaceplane to flight and begin work on a next generation of vehicles. In a Nov. 3 earnings call, Michael Colglazier, chief executive of Virgin Galactic, said the company was “prioritizing ourRead More

Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit. “It’s a key win for our space business,” Leidos chairman and CEO Roger Krone said during a third-quarter earnings call. Northrop Grumman won a $617 million contract in July to produce 14 infrared-sensingRead More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected Spire Global to design a small satellite for an experiment to study high-frequency radio signals in the upper layers of the atmosphere, the company announced recently in November. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Spire will design a cubesat to carry a sensor in a veryRead More