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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, October 13, 2016

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USAF Bars Exclusive Teaming With Rocket Shops For New ICBM

Oct 12, 2016
Solid rocket motor manufacturers Aerojet Rocketdyne and Orbital ATK have been barred from exclusively teaming with prime contractors Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman or Boeing Defense, Space & Security for the U.S. Air Force’s forthcoming intercontinental ballistic missile competition.
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USAF Global Hawk Flies With U-2 Wet Film Camera

Oct 11, 2016
Northrop Grumman says an U.S. Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk has flown another payload demonstrations aimed at re-hosting key U-2 sensors on the unmanned aircraft.
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NASA Mapping Flight-test Details Of Lunar-orbit Habitat

Oct 11, 2016
NASA's human-exploration planners are developing work schedules for the human-tended habitat they hope to put in orbit around the Moon in the coming decade.
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Smallsat Could Act As ‘Insurance’ For Europa Probe

Oct 10, 2016
NASA has developed a concept for a small secondary payload on the planned “Europa Clipper” mission that would dip as low as 2 km above the Jupiter moon’s icy surface to sample ocean-ice fragments that could contain the chemical signatures of life.
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Radiation Experiments Show Rodent Brain Damage, Study Shows

Oct 10, 2016
Radiation exposures that human explorers are likely to encounter from galactic cosmic radiation on deep space missions to the Martian environs appear responsible for long-term brain damage in rodents that served as human analogue subjects in ground-based experiments.
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India To Launch Resourcesat 2A in November

Oct 05, 2016
India will launch Resourcesat 2A—the latest in a series of the country’s Earth observation satellites—in November, an attempt toward bolstering its weather prediction capabilities.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Oct 13, 2016
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS VERTEX AEROSPACE began work on nine-year, $1.9b contractor logistics support contract for U.S. Air Force KC-10 fleet, following Government Accountability Office dismissal of bid protest by rival AAR DEFENSE SYSTEMS & LOGISTICS. RAYTHEON and U.S. Air Force completed series of risk reduction functional checkouts of GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System (GPS OCX) Block 1 capabilities, with focus on software. Testing included GPS constellation management and sustainment.

Funding & Policy

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Aerial Imaging Market Seen Growing 13% Through 2022

Oct 13, 2016
The aerial imaging market is expected to hit $2.836 billion by 2022, registering a compound annual growth rate of 12.9%, according to Allied Market Research. The government sector will be the dominant end-user, growing almost 11% yearly, and North America will lead by region, although the Asia-Pacific will be the fastest growing. “The adoption of aerial imaging has increased in various sectors such as agriculture and forestry, energy and resource management, tourism, research, and media and entertainment among others,” forecasters say.
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Finland To Purchase Grob Trainers From Babcock

Oct 11, 2016
The Finnish defense ministry will purchase 28 used Grob 115E piston-engine training aircraft from Babcock International to fulfill the country’s ab-initio/elementary pilot training needs.

Business

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New Airbus Silicon Valley CEO Has UAVs Background

Oct 11, 2016
The new CEO of Airbus Group’s Silicon Valley outpost, A3, has a background in autonomous air vehicles and flight controls.

Industry Data

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Defense Market Intelligence Notes

Oct 13, 2016
North America The new commander of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command says he won’t take the organization’s “foot off the gas” when it comes to laser weapon development for an AC-130J Block 60 gunship. Lt. Gen. Brad Webb took command of the Hurlburt Field, Florida-based special forces group in July from Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold. “I absolutely do not intend to take the foot off the gas in respect to development of a high-energy laser,” Webb says. U.S. Army Outlines Options