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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, December 10, 2014

VOL. 250 NO. 46 December 10, 2014
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Programs

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New Chinese Launcher Family Further Delayed

Dec 11, 2014
BEIJING—Development of the next Chinese space launcher family has slipped again, with its two smaller members likely to fly next year while engineers…
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Canberra Calls In Foreigners To Fix Destroyer Program

Dec 11, 2014
Australia will appoint a team of up to 40 warship-building specialists from foreign companies to improve the performance of the ailing Hobart Class…
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First F-35 Assembled In Italy To Roll Out Early Next Year

Dec 10, 2014
The first aircraft is slated to roll off the line by March 2015.
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Airbus, Thales Start Work On Remote-Sensing Satellites For UAE

Dec 11, 2014
PARIS—Airbus Defense and Space and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract for the production phase of the UAE’s twin-satellite Falcon Eye optical…
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Orbital Sciences To Launch Cygnus On Atlas 5 In September

Dec 11, 2014
PARIS—Orbital Sciences Corp. says it will resume flights of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) using United Launch…
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Initial Results Show Orion Heat Shield In ‘Great’ Shape

Dec 11, 2014
SAN DIEGO—NASA officials assessing initial data from the Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) Orion crew capsule say future recovery operations at sea…
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China Plans Mars Rover, 2030 Test of Moon Rocket

Dec 11, 2014
BEIJING—The Chinese space industry plans to use its forthcoming Long March 5 launcher to send a rover to Mars around 2020 while engineers separately…

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Dec 11, 2014
SIERRA NEVADA CORP. completed Milestone 15a in Reaction Control System (RCS) propulsion risk reduction for its Dream Chaser spacecraft, under NASA…

In Brief

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Light Recce/Attack Ahrlac Makes Flight-Test Progress

Dec 11, 2014
Flight testing of South Africa’s Ahrlac light armed reconnaissance aircraft has passed the 50-hr. mark. The twin-boom, pusher-turboprop aircraft,…

Funding and Policy

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Airbus A320, UAV In Air Proximity Incident Near Heathrow

Dec 11, 2014
LONDON—U.K. air safety inspectors are investigating an air proximity (Airprox) incident between an Airbus A320 and a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…

Technology

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Darpa’s Cellularized Sat To Rideshare On Sherpa Free-Flyer

Dec 11, 2014
A modular satellite concept will be demonstrated in 2015 with a spacecraft built by NovaWurks to be launched on a U.S. booster along with other small…