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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 19, 2014

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UCAS, F-18 Tested Together On Carrier Deck

Aug 19, 2014
ABOARD THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT — The U.S. Navy executed its first-ever takeoff and landing of unmanned and manned aircraft in rapid succession on an aircraft carrier deck Aug. 17, putting the service one step closer to its goal of a mixed fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft in the coming years.
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Cygnus Reenters After 31 Days At The Space Station

Aug 19, 2014
CYGNUS: The third Orbital Sciences Cygnus commercial cargo carrier to reach the International Space Station reentered the atmosphere Aug. 17 for a splashdown in the Pacific east of New Zealand, wrapping up the second of eight resupply missions for the company under its $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Carried to orbit July 13 on an Orbital Sciences Antares launch vehicle from Wallops Island, Virginia, the pressurized capsule carried 3,550 lb. of garbage for its destructive return to Earth. It took 3,669 lb.
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Ford Carrier Starts Below-Deck Emals Testing

Aug 19, 2014
Below-deck testing of the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft launch system has begun aboard the next-generation aircraft carrier CVN 78 Gerald R. Ford, Navy officials say.
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U.K. Rivet Joint Goes Into Action Over Iraq

Aug 19, 2014
LONDON—The U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has begun using its Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft operationally for the first time. While visiting forward-deployed personnel in Cyprus, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon confirmed the U.K.’s single aircraft was being used to support Operation Shader, the U.K.’s humanitarian mission in Iraq.
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Station Cosmonauts Deploy CubeSat; Work With External Experiments

Aug 19, 2014
HOUSTON—Spacewalking cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev deployed the Peruvian CubeSat Chasqui-1 as they embarked on a 6 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), an extra-vehicular excursion devoted primarily to the installation and retrieval of external materials exposure experiments.
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South Korea To Commission Second Assault Ship In 2020

Aug 19, 2014
BEIJING — South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-Koo has authorized construction of the country’s long-delayed second assault ship, now scheduled to enter service in 2020. The design will be improved from that of South Korea’s first such ship, Dokdo, which displaces 19,300 metric tons when fully loaded. “The basic configuration will be similar to Dokdo’s, with more up-to-date equipment,” a spokesman for the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said after Kim made the decision to build the ship.
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Unmanned K-Max Operates With Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Aug 19, 2014
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army have demonstrated the autonomous deployment of an unmanned ground vehicle by an unmanned aircraft. The test, at Fort Benning in Georgia, involved the Lockheed/Kaman K-Max unmanned helicopter airlifting Lockheed’s Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) vehicle into position to conduct an autonomous resupply and reconnaissance mission.

Funding & Policy

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Chinese Checkers In The Pacific

Aug 19, 2014
ABOARD THE USS RONALD REAGAN/ABOARD THE CNS HAIKOU — According to some who were aboard the CVN 76 USS Ronald Reagan at the time, at first they thought they must be mistaken: the Chinese would not have sent a spy ship to gather intelligence on a maritime exercise in which their country was actually participating. But they did.

Technology

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U.S. Navy Cleans The Air With New Sub System

Aug 19, 2014
U.S. Navy engineers recently completed the installation of the first Central Atmosphere Monitoring System (CAMS) IIA on an in-service submarine—the SSN 752 USS Pasadena. The system ensures the cleansed air used in the submarine while submerged remains safe for the crew to breathe.
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USAF Backs Aerojet Rocketdyne in Large-Scale 3-D Printing Demo

Aug 19, 2014
Aerojet Rocketdyne will demonstrate the fabrication of large-scale, metal rocket-engine parts through the use of laser-melting additive manufacturing (AM), under a Defense Production Act from Wright-Patterson AFB announced Aug. 18.

Contracts

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Select aerospace and defense contracts for the week of Aug. 11-14, 2014

Aug 19, 2014
Selected aerospace and defense contracts for Aug. 11, 2014 U.S. NAVY