Aerospace and logistics company Thales and the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced on Friday an agreement worth about $202.3 million (167 million euros) for the development of the automated reusable spaceplane. According to a company news release, Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67 %, Leonardo 33 %), and AVIO as co-contractor, signed a contract with […]

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U.K. aerospace giant BAE Systems has announced that it has been awarded a $1.7 billion deal to support the production of 38 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for the German Air Force. As noted by Britain’s biggest defense company, work will commence in 2021 at BAE Systems’ sites in Lancashire, maintaining continuity of Typhoon production through to […]

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The U.S. Navy awarded the deal to AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corporation, a unit of Italy’s Leonardo, to build TH-73A helicopters. The deal, which was a modification to a previous contract, was worth almost $171 million and covered exercise options for the production and delivery of 36 TH-73A aircraft in support of the Advanced Helicopter Training System […]

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