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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 6, 2015

VOL. 251 NO. 42 March 06, 2015

Programs

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NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Team Settles On 2016 Landing Site

Mar 05, 2015
NASA’s next Mars lander, InSight, will aim for a touchdown on a smooth patch of terrain within Elysium Planitia in the northern equatorial region of the red planet.
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Sikorsky Abandons S-434 Project

Mar 07, 2015
ORLANDO, Florid—Sikorsky has confirmed that it has abandoned its S-434 light helicopter program. Work on the project ended last summer, Dan Hunter,…
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Australian Air Task Group Is Glimpse Of Future RAAF

Feb 20, 2015
Deployed in short order last year to bolster international operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria, Australia’s highly modern Air Task Group (ATG) is a compact bellwether of an air force in transition.
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Arid Mars Was Once Haven For Liquid Water

Mar 05, 2015
As much as 20% of the ancient Martian surface may have been covered by an ocean, a mile or 1,600 meters deep and most likely in the northern hemisphere, according to a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-led study of global moisture in the atmosphere of the red planet.
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MD Helicopters To Redesign MD-902

Mar 04, 2015
MD Helicopters plans to redesign its MD-902 light-twin engine helo, company owner Lynn Tilton says.
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NanoRacks ISS CubeSat Deployer Returns To Action

Mar 05, 2015
Two delayed Planet Labs, Inc., Earth observing Dove CubeSats were successfully launched from the International Space Station last week.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Mar 07, 2015
NORTHROP GRUMMAN licensed its air-flow-through (AFT) cooling technology for electronics to GE INTELLIGENT PLATFORMS. ASTRONAUTICS CORP. OF AMERICA…

In Brief

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Culbertson Says He Will Stiffen Wolf’s China Restriction

Mar 07, 2015
Rep. John Culbertson (R-Texas), the new chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, vows to go his predecessor one better in…

Operations

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First RAAF Aircrew Completes Growler Training

Mar 05, 2015
Five Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircrew personnel recently graduated from basic training at Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129, the U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler Fleet Replacement Squadron at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whidbey Island.

Defense Market Intelligence Notes

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Defense Market Intelligence Notes

Mar 07, 2015
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/03/asd_03_06_2015_dmin.pdf North America On Feb. 23rd, Bell Helicopter announced that later this year…