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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, October 21, 2014

VOL. 250 NO. 12 October 21, 2014
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Programs

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Russia, China Approach Su-35 Deal

Oct 21, 2014
MOSCOW/BEIJING — A deal for China to buy Sukhoi Su-35s, under negotiation for several years, looks like it is going through. Russian Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin says the partners may sign a deal in November. “There will be a meeting of joint [Russo-Chinese] commission on military-technical cooperation in November. I think they will solve this issue there,” the Interfax-AVN news agency quotes Rogozin as saying.
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Intevac Awaits Apache Contract, F-35 Testing

Oct 21, 2014
Intevac, the company building a new night vision camera for F-35 pilots, is expecting its next production lot of work for its Apache helicopter…
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Upgraded Typhoons Enter U.K. Service

Oct 21, 2014
LONDON — Fifteen U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons have been upgraded with new hardware and software by BAE Systems, giving the…
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MDA Inches Forward On UAV Target Cueing

Oct 21, 2014
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) says its Oct. 17 non-intercept test dubbed FTX-20 was successful at demonstrating that data from airborne…
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Russian Helicopters Flies Fourth Prototype Mi-38

Oct 21, 2014
LONDON — Russian Helicopters has completed ground tests and the first flight of the fourth prototype of its Mi-38 heavy helicopter. The first flight…
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Mars Spacecraft Survive Comet; Next Up, Science

Oct 21, 2014
The comet Siding Spring 2013 whizzed past Mars on Oct. 19, leaving the constellation of scientific spacecraft orbiting the planet undamaged and beginning to transmit the scientific take from their unprecedented close encounter with an Oort Cloud object.
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U.S. Navy Tests Prep LCS Crews For Fire Scout

Oct 21, 2014
Sailors aboard LCS 4 USS Coronado conducted more tests with the MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take-Off and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle …

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Oct 21, 2014
LOCKHEED MARTIN delivered first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument for NOAA’s GOES-R weather satellites. Integration of the tornado…

In Brief

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Sierra Nevada Seeks To Have Commercial Crew Stop-Work Reinstated

Oct 21, 2014
Sierra Nevada isn’t giving up on its Dream Chaser commercial space crew vehicle. With billions at stake, the company has asked the U.S. Court of…

Technology

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U.S. Army Seeking Self-Navigation Capabilities For Pseudolites

Oct 21, 2014
The U.S. Army is conducting market research for technologies that will allow a network of “pseudolites” to take over the role of the GPS…

Contracts

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Selected Aerospace and Defense Contracts for the Week of Oct. 14-17, 2014

Oct 21, 2014
Selected aerospace and defense contracts for the week of Oct. 14-17, 2014. Selected aerospace and defense contracts for Oct. 14, 2014 U.S. NAVY…