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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, July 17, 2015

VOL. 253 NO. 12 July 17, 2015
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Programs

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Cost Could Force South Korea To Trim F-16 Upgrade

Jul 16, 2015
South Korean program managers may have to trim a plan to modernize 134 F-16s, following U.S. Defense Department confirmation that the proposed work by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman would exceed Seoul’s budget.
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New Horizons Team Finds ‘Mountain In A Moat’ On Charon

Jul 16, 2015
A new image shows a strange formation on the surface of Pluto's moon Charon.
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NanoRacks Will Provide Suborbital Research Gear For Blue Origin Flights

Jul 16, 2015
NanoRacks has teamed with Blue Origin to provide payload accommodation for scientific experiments and education projects on the New Shepard suborbital spaceflight vehicle when it begins flying as early as next year.
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Ariane 5 Launches European Weather Satellite, Brazilian Comsat

Jul 16, 2015
Europe’s Arianespace launch consortium successfully lifted two geostationary satellites to orbit July 15.
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Station Astronauts Take Shelter To Avoid Debris Threat

Jul 16, 2015
The International Space Station (ISS) crew took shelter in their docked Soyuz crew transport vehicle early July 16 after a fragment from a former Russian weather satellite threatened to pass close before flight controllers here and in Moscow could arrange an avoidance maneuver.
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ISS Program Faces Cost Challenge As It Seeks Extension

Jul 16, 2015
HOUSTON – NASA faces a steep rise in the cost of supporting the International Space Station (ISS), according to a cautionary audit from the agency’s inspector general. It is a trend that threatens to take a prolonged financial toll if a U.S.-backed, four-year extension of operations through 2024 wins support from the orbiting lab’s major partners.
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LCS, Destroyer Finish First Joint South China Sea Ops

Jul 16, 2015
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth partnered with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 82 USS Lassen earlier this month to complete their first combined South China Sea presence operations.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Jul 17, 2015
USAF, NNSA completed first developmental flight test of B61-121 nuclear bomb at Tonopah Test Range July 1; baseline design review in 2016. GERMANY…

In Brief

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Middle East Countries Spending Billions On Weapons

Jul 17, 2015
In the last five years, the Persian Gulf countries have been on a blistering weapons buying spree, according to a report by Anthony Cordesman of the…

Funding & Policy

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Canberra Looks At Raising Boeing P-8 Buy To 15

Jul 16, 2015
Australia may increase its planned force of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers under a policy set out in a defense white paper expected within weeks, local media say.
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Greece’s Eurozone Troubles Hurting Armed Forces

Jul 16, 2015
In a country where the government is struggling to pay the wages of its civil servants and the pensions of its retirees, one might think that Greece’s defense budget has taken a backseat to other areas of public spending.

Forecasts/Industry Data

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F-16C/D Spec Snapshot

Jul 18, 2015
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