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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 13, 2014

VOL. 249 NO. 31 August 13, 2014
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Programs

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Bell, Sikorsky/Boeing To Build U.S. Army JMR Rotorcraft Demonstrators

Aug 13, 2014
Bell Helicopter and Sikorsky/Boeing have been selected to build high-speed rotorcraft technology demonstrators for the U.S. Army. Both aircraft are scheduled to fly in 2017. Bell will build the 280-kt. V-280 Valor tiltrotor and Sikorsky/Boeing the 230 kt.-plus SB.1 Defiant rigid coaxial-rotor compound helicopter under the $217 million first phase of the Joint Multi Role technology demonstration (JMR TD).
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NASA Picks Northrop Grumman To Supply Solar Probe Nav Unit

Aug 13, 2014
SOLAR PROBE: Northrop Grumman has won a $3 million NASA contract to provide a key piece of navigation gear for the agency’s 2018 Solar Probe Plus mission to image and take in-situ measurements of the Sun’s corona. Under the competitively bid contract, the company will deliver a Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit, or Scalable SIRU, in May 2016. The device is designed to measure rotation-rate data for the systems that stabilize and point the spacecraft.
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First U.K. A400M Moves Closer To First Flight

Aug 13, 2014
LONDON – The first A400M airlifter for the U.K. Royal Air Force has moved under its own power as preparations begin for its first flight. Taxi trials of the first of 22 RAF aircraft, MSN15, took place on Aug. 10, manufacturer Airbus Defense and Space said in an Aug. 10 press release. The tests will pave the way for a first flight in the coming weeks in readiness for delivery in September.
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Japanese Fighter Demo To Fly In January

Aug 13, 2014
Japan’s ATD-X fighter technology demonstrator is due to fly in January 2015, confirming that the program is holding to its latest schedule. The aircraft, built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the defense ministry’s Technical Research and Development Institute, will be handed over to the ministry by the end of March, says the Mainichi newspaper, reporting the plan for the first flight.
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Bristow Pushes Ahead With U.K. SAR Contract

Aug 13, 2014
LONDON – Bristow says plans for the company to take on the U.K.’s search-and-rescue helicopter capability are “on schedule and on budget.” In revealing the helicopter operator’s first-quarter results Aug. 4 in Houston, Jonathan Baliff, Bristow’s new president and CEO, told analysts that construction work on two new bases at Inverness and Humberside airports was already well underway and that both would be operational in the first quarter of 2015, with other bases at eight other locations around the U.K. following later.
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Europe’s Final ATV Mission Reaches International Space Station

Aug 13, 2014
HOUSTON — The European Space Agency’s final Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) carried out a trouble-free docking with the six-person International Space Station early Aug. 12, delivering 14,555 lb. of supplies, research gear and propellants. The 20-ton ATV locked into the aft docking port of the station’s Russian-segment Zvezda service module at 9:30 a.m. EDT. It is scheduled to remain parked there until late January, serving as a propulsion source when needed for attitude control, orbit raising and orbital debris avoidance maneuvers.
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Orbital Sciences Will Build Hylas-4 Satcom for Avanti

Aug 13, 2014
Avanti Communications Group has picked Orbital Sciences Corp. to build its Hylas-4 broadband communications satellite, marking the second order Orbital has received from the London-based telecommunications wholesaler. Based in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital built Hylas-2, a high-throughput Ka-band platform launched in 2012. The new spacecraft, built on Orbital’s GEOStar-3 bus, will serve Africa and Europe with 66 fixed beams carrying a maximum of 28 GHz of capacity. Arianespace is set to launch the spacecraft in early 2017.

Business

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ULA CEO Steps Down In Face of Competition

Aug 13, 2014
Michael Gass, first CEO of the U.S. military launch monopoly United Launch Alliance (ULA), will retire from the company at year’s end, just as it faces a potential competition for work with upstart Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
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Market Growth Predicted For Smallsat Earth-observation Constellations

Aug 13, 2014
LOGAN, Utah – Big players are starting to take notice of the capabilities that small satellites can provide, and they’re putting significant skin in the game.

Operations

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U.K. Deploys Tornados To Support Iraq Humanitarian Operation

Aug 13, 2014
LONDON — The British government is deploying Royal Air Force Tornado fighter-bombers to support humanitarian operations in Iraq.

Industry Data

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Aviation Week 2014 Workforce Study

Aug 13, 2014
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