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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, June 10, 2015

VOL. 252 NO. 50 June 10, 2015
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Programs

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Germany Selects Meads Over Patriot

Jun 09, 2015
The move which comes four years after the United States decided not to procure the system, will see Meads replace Germany’s PAC-3 Patriots in the early 2020s.
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NASA Claims Progress With LDSD Flight Test

Jun 09, 2015
NASA engineers believe they achieved a small but potentially significant advance in efforts to develop a supersonic inflatable decelerator and parachute for landing heavy payloads on Mars, despite some problems with a June 8 test.
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CAE Unseats Flight Safety As C-12 Training Provider

Jun 09, 2015
CAE will take Flight Safety International’s place as the turn-key initial and recurrent simulator and live flight training provider for more than 600 pilots who fly the U.S. Army and Air Force C-12 (Beechcraft King Air), starting in fall 2016.
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Airbus Helicopters Pushes Toward H160 First Flight

Jun 10, 2015
LONDON—Airbus Helicopters is pushing ahead with testing on the first prototype of its H160 twin-engine medium helicopter. Ground tests of prototype…
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Australian Firm Hopes To Break Into U.K. Flight-Testing Opportunities

Jun 10, 2015
LONDON—Australian defense engineering firm Nova Systems has begun operations in the U.K. with the aim of breaking into the U.K. and European flight…

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Jun 10, 2015
RAYTHEON has $10.6m U.S. Air Force contract for the Small Diameter Bomb II aircraft integration test assets, including jettison test vehicles and…

In Brief

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New NASA Dataset Offers Public Projections of Climate-change Effects

Jun 10, 2015
An 11-terabyte dataset that combines worldwide environmental measurements and the latest climate-simulation models is available for the public to use in forecasting possible changes to temperature and precipitation patterns though the year 2100. The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) produced the dataset at the agency’s Advanced Supercomputing Center at Ames Research Center in California.

Technology

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MAV Maker Offers U.S. Navy Options For GPS-Denied Areas

Jun 09, 2015
Always on the prowl for technology meant to keep sailors out of damaged or dangerous ship areas, the U.S. Navy may be able to count on a new piece of equipment being developed by Pittsburgh-based Sensible Machines.
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India To Test Launch Reusable Launch Vehicle

Jun 09, 2015
India is preparing to carry out an experimental flight of its reusable launch vehicle, a senior space scientist says.
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U.S. Navy Continues Fleet Digital Voltage Regulator Changes

Jun 05, 2015
Engineers at Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (Navsses) recently completed installation and testing of a digital voltage regulator (DVR) on the mine countermeasure (MCM) ship USS Scout (MCM 8).

Funding & Policy

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U.S. Should Highlight Fallout From Asia-Pacific Island Issues, CSIS Says

Jun 05, 2015
The U.S. should keep applying pressure in the increasingly contentious island disputes involving China and its neighbors by showing how those problems affect sea security, says Mira Rapp-Hooper, an East Asian analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Operations

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Russia Announces Revised 2015 Soyuz, Progress Launch Schedule

Jun 09, 2015
Russia on June 9 announced refinements to its schedule for a half-dozen Soyuz crew and Progress re-supply launches to the International Space Station though the remainder of 2015.