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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 9, 2014

VOL. 249 NO. 48 September 09, 2014
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Operations

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NATO To Hold Defense Exercise With Georgia

Sep 10, 2014
The former Soviet state of Georgia will take part in a defense capacity-building exercise with NATO, achieving the status of becoming an enhanced…

Programs

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SpaceX Will Deliver Sophisticated Earth-Observation Sensors To ISS

Sep 10, 2014
A SpaceX Dragon capsule is scheduled to deliver the first in a series of Earth-observation instruments to the International Space Station later this…
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Lockheed Unveils Upgrades To A2100 Satellite Bus

Sep 10, 2014
PARIS—Lockheed Martin Space Systems has completed two major upgrades to the A2100 satellite platform as part of an overhaul of the venerable…
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Arianespace Announces Four New Satellite Orders

Sep 10, 2014
PARIS—European launch consortium Arianespace has announced four new launch contracts for small-communications satellites to be launched in 2016 and…
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SpaceX Launches AsiaSat-6

Sep 10, 2014
A SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 launched the company’s second mission for Hong Kong-based Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Ltd. (AsiaSat) Sept. 7,…
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ISS Flight Controllers Assess Cubesat Risk to Departing Soyuz Crew

Sep 10, 2014
HOUSTON—NASA spent Sept. 8 weighing whether to retrieve an erratic cubesat deployer from the outside of the space station prior to the Sept. 10…
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U.K. Secures Future Of Second Carrier

Sep 10, 2014
NEWPORT, Wales — The U.K. government has decided to retain its second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, reversing 2010…

Forecasts/Industry Data

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U.S. Defense Department Major Program Assessments

Sep 10, 2014
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Business

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ViaSat, Loral Space, SS/L Settle Satellite Disagreements

Sep 10, 2014
ViaSat Communications, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Loral Space & Communications have settled a two-and-half-year legal dispute over satellite…

In Brief

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General Dynamics Merges Two Units

Sep 10, 2014
GD MERGE: General Dynamics said Sept. 8 that its 5,700-employee Advanced Information Systems and 7,400-person C4 Systems business units will be…

Contracts

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Selected Aerospace and Defense Contracts for the Week of Sept. 2-5, 2014

Sep 10, 2014
Selected aerospace and defense contracts for the week of Sept. 2-5, 2014. Selected aerospace and defense contracts for Sept. 2, 2014 ARMY Watts…

Technology

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NASA To Assess Autonomy For Small UAS

Sep 10, 2014
NASA is polling industry to assess the state of the art in autonomy for small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to help guide its research on…