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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 21, 2015

VOL. 252 NO. 37 May 21, 2015
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Programs

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A400M Countries Form Monitoring Team, Germany Warns Of Airlift Gap

May 21, 2015
The team will monitor Airbus plans to bring the project back on track, according to a German defense ministry letter sent to members of parliament and obtained by Aviation Week.
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SpaceX, Blue Origin Planning For Stage Recovery Success

May 20, 2015
SpaceX and Blue Origin appear increasingly confident they will be able to achieve their target of recovering booster stages for post-flight inspection and reuse, after analyzing the respective failures that occurred within 15 days of one another in April.
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Boeing Considers Upgraded A-10 Exports, Makes Move on F-16s

May 20, 2015
Boeing stresses that any such project depends on the U.S. Air Force retiring the aircraft, in the face of Congressional opposition, and releasing its inventory.
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NASA 3-D Prints Copper Rocket-Engine Liner

May 20, 2015
Engineers at NASA Marshall have used a selective laser-melting machine to craft a copper liner with more than 200 channels in the walls for regenerative cooling with cryogenic propellant.
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NASA’s SMAP Spacecraft Transitions To Science Observations

May 20, 2015
The $916 million spacecraft mission was launched Jan. 31, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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X-37B Lifts Off On An Atlas V For Its Fourth Flight

May 20, 2015
The mission appeared nominal through first-stage separation and ignition of the Centaur upper stage’s RL-10 engine, but live coverage of the launch terminated at that point as the mission withdrew behind the veil of secrecy that has cloaked X-37B operations in the past.
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Radar Reinstall Marks RCOH Milestone Aboard Lincoln

May 20, 2015
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) reached another milestone during its refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) earlier this month with the installation of the ship’s AN/SPS-48 primary air-search radar antenna on Lincoln’s island, U.S. Navy officials say.
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Rolling Airframe Missile Achieves IOC On Amphib

May 20, 2015
The U.S. Navy says it achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the Block 2 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) earlier this month aboard the amphibious-transport dock ship LPD 24 USS Arlington.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

May 20, 2015
ASTRONICS AEROSPACE earned $23.4m on $142.4m revenues in 1Q15 vs. $17.5m on $122.4m in 1Q14. CHOMARAT CHINA, Taicang (near Shanghai), received EN 9100:2009 certification for its advanced composite reinforcements. FLORIDA TURBINE TECHNOLOGIES has Aerojet Rocketdyne contract to provide aerospace propulsion engineering services.

Technology

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Boeing Exploring Hybrid Comms Linking Satellites And UAVs

May 20, 2015
Boeing is in discussions with several big data companies about developing hybrid communications systems combining satellites with high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs derived from Boeing’s Phantom Eye technology demonstrator.

Funding & Policy

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Boeing Space Chief Skeptical Of Minuteman Replacement

May 20, 2015
​The U.S. Air Force is unlikely to be able to afford an all-new replacement for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile “in the foreseeable future,” Boeing Network & Space Systems President Craig Cooning says. Although the service’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program envisages an all-new substitute for the much-upgraded missile, in service since 1970, the funds are not there to do it, Cooning says. “There is money in the budget, but it is very minimal,” he says.
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Bi-Partisan Support Urged For U.S. Commercial Space Launch Act

May 20, 2015
Commercial Spaceflight Federation President Eric Stallmer is calling on legislators from both sides of the aisle to put aside political differences and support moves to update the Commercial Space Launch Act (CSLA) that is working its way through Capitol Hill.
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GAO Cites Risks, Benefits of Phased U.S. Navy Cruiser Plan

May 20, 2015
“The Navy did not consider any formal alternatives to the original Phased Modernization Plan and revised the plan primarily to respond to congressional concerns that removing cruisers from the fleet would exacerbate existing capacity shortfalls,” GAO says.