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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 31, 2015

VOL. 253 NO. 43 August 31, 2015
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Programs

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Challenges Remain For MUOS ‘Smart Phone’ Payload

Aug 28, 2015
Work still remains to declare the new MUOS payload – designed to provide 3G “smart phone-like” capabilities to users around the globe – operational on the $8.2 billion system.
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Ireland To Consider Replacing Maritime Patrollers in 2019

Aug 28, 2015
Ireland is planning to replace its pair of CASA-built CN235 Persuader maritime patrol aircraft in 2019 with a “larger, more capable aircraft,” a white paper on the country’s defense says.
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Boeing Awarded $1.5 Billion For P-8A Poseidons

Aug 28, 2015
The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a $1.5 billion contract for 13 new P-8A Poseidon aircraft, which has become the poster aircraft for the U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, especially in recent clashes with China in the South China Sea.
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Arizona State Building Cubesat To Map Lunar Water

Aug 28, 2015
NASA has picked a third cubesat proposal for a piggyback ride to lunar orbit with the first flight of the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), testing whether the growing capabilities being developed for the tiny spacecraft can serve its space-science needs.
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Tests Clear Way For Hot-Firing Flight SLS Main Engines

Aug 28, 2015
The full-duration test in the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi completed work to characterize the reusable engine’s performance at the higher thrust levels, higher inlet pressures and lower temperatures the flight engines will experience in the first SLS mission.
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Japan Floats Out, Names Fourth Helicopter Carrier

Aug 28, 2015
Shipbuilder Japan Marine United has floated Japan’s fourth helicopter carrier out of the construction dock, with entry into service due in 2017.
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Soyuz Maneuvers Open ISS Docking Port For Taxi Mission

Aug 28, 2015
Long-duration International Space Station crewmembers Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko joined their soon-to-depart commander, Gennady Padalka, aboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft early Aug. 28 for a brief flight to exchange parking spots on the orbiting science laboratory.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Sep 01, 2015
LOCKHEED MARTIN has a $89.3m U.S. Navy contract for the system development and demonstration (SDD) Phase I Increment 2 for first aircraft arrival and initial ops in support of Israel’s F-35A under Foreign Military Sales program. Work to be complete in March 2020. AIRBUS HELICOPTERS has contract from OCCAR to define architecture for Mk. 3 mid-life upgrade of EC665 Tiger helicopter.

Funding & Policy

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Report: Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal Growing Rapidly

Sep 01, 2015
U.S. lawmakers will spend their fall wrapped up in negotiations aimed at stalling development of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, Iran’s neighbor to the southeast, Pakistan, may have the fastest-growing nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. Within the next decade, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may be the world’s third largest behind the U.S. and Russia and nearly twice the size of its rival India’s, according to a report from the Stimson Center and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Operations

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ATSB: RF Interference Likely Behind Cricket Drone Crash

Aug 28, 2015
An eight-rotor remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) that crashed while providing coverage of the International Cricket Council World Cup Final in Melbourne, Victoria, this spring may have been overcome by radio frequency interference from broadcast telecommunications facilities, mobile broadcast vehicles and cell phones from the more than 93,000 attendees of the event.
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Dash-8 Pilot Reports Harrowing Near Miss With UAV

Aug 28, 2015
The pilot of a Bombardier Dash-8 regional airliner has described a near miss with a UAV while on approach to London’s City Airport as “possibly catastrophic.”

Calendar of Events

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Upcoming Events

Sep 01, 2015
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Aug. 31-Sept. 2—AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition (Space 2015), Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena, California. For more information go to www.aiaa-space.org