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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 7, 2015

VOL. 252 NO. 27 May 07, 2015
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Programs

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SpaceX Completes Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test

May 06, 2015
The test, which culminated with splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just offshore, marks a major milestone on the road to using the Crew Dragon for human missions to the International Space Station in 2017.
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India, France Set Up Special Teams For Rafale Deal

May 06, 2015
India and France have decided to expedite an intergovernmental agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighters by establishing special teams to work out the details of the acquisition process.
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NASA’s LRO Steps Up Lunar Ice Search

May 06, 2015
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is ratcheting up its search for and characterization of potential ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s south pole, following a pair of altitude-lowering maneuvers.
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NASA Materials-Science Experiment To Fly On Next X-37B

May 06, 2015
Researchers studying how various materials perform in long-duration exposure to the space environment will get a ride on the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B reusable unpiloted spaceplane’s next flight, NASA said May 6.
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Aselsan Reveals Stand-Off Jammer Offer For Turkish Air Force

May 06, 2015
Turkish defense electronics firm Aselsan has revealed details of the stand-off jammer aircraft it is offering to the Turkish air force.
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Draper Lab Designing Spacesuit To Give Astronauts A Sense Of ‘Down’

May 05, 2015
The suit Draper is developing would give space crews physical cues to help them feel an arbitrary direction – toward one side of a module, for example – in place of the sense of “down” they receive from gravity on the ground.
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India Gets Two Repaired Ka-31 Helos From Russia

May 06, 2015
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two repaired Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopters to India, with the remaining four helos to be handed over in the “near future.”

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

May 07, 2015
RAYTHEON has $559m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract for 44 SM-3 Block IBs, plus third-stage motor reliability growth and design enhancements…

In Brief

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Enterprise Moved For Further Defueling Work

May 06, 2015
While lawmakers continue to debate the construction program for future Ford-class aircraft carriers, work continues to inactivate the first nuclear-powered carrier in Tidewater, Virginia.

Technology

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U.S. Air Force Opens Lightweight UAV Turbine Engine Competition

May 06, 2015
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has announced the first-ever Air Force Prize, awarding $2 million for the first developer of a lightweight, turbine engine to power a UAV.
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New Round Of Satellite Servicing Demos Take Place Outside ISS

May 06, 2015
NASA ground control teams working with a mock satellite bus positioned outside the International Space Station have completed a five-day round of hardware staging and technology demonstrations that one day could robotically refurbish satellites as distant as geosynchronous orbit.

Operations

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U.S. Navy ESG Completes First 7th Fleet FST-J Exercise With MEB

May 06, 2015
The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7 completed its annual Fleet Synthetic Training - Joint Exercise (FST-J) 15-72 aboard the amphibious assault ship LHD 6 USS Bonhomme Richard earlier this month.

Funding & Policy

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U.S. Navy To Look At Technology, Tactics To Secure Cyber

May 06, 2015
To navigate the cyber realm more safely with its ships, aircraft and other platforms, the U.S. Navy has to pay closer attention to the way it operates and the technology it uses, says Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the Fleet Cyber Command and Tenth Fleet.