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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 7, 2015

VOL. 253 NO. 48 September 07, 2015

Programs

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Boeing Dubs Commercial Crew Vehicle ‘Starliner

Sep 07, 2015
Boeing will call its CST-100 commercial crew vehicle the Starliner. Chris Ferguson, the company’s deputy commercial crew program manager, announced the name Sept. 4 at a ceremony opening the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. The Starliner will be assembled and processed for launch in the new facility, which occupies one of NASA’s shuttle-era Orbiter Processing Facilities (Aerospace DAILY, Sept. 4).
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USAF, Northrop Eye Reduced B-2 Maintenance Down Time

Sep 04, 2015
The U.S. Air Force has elected to extend the time between major repair overhauls for its stealthy B-2 bombers by two years and decrease the time needed for each overhaul.
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Australian MH-60R Deliveries Ahead Of Schedule

Sep 04, 2015
Deliveries of Royal Australian Navy MH-60R helicopters from Sikorsky and Lockheed Martin are running ahead of schedule, because U.S. budget-control measures are forcing delays in acquisition for the U.S. Navy.
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Soyuz Delivers Three Crewmembers To Space Station

Sep 04, 2015
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft docked with the International Space Station early Sept. 4, delivering a three-man crew for a week of spacecraft and personnel exchanges as well as technology demonstrations and science experiments.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Sep 07, 2015
SIKORSKY has $46.1m U.S. Army foreign military sales contract for four UH-60M helicopters for Slovakia. Work to be performed in Stratford, CT, complete by May 31, 2017. KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC. has $20m, two-year contract for electromagnetic railgun work for undisclosed U.S. government customer.

Holiday Notice

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Holiday Note

Sep 07, 2015
In observance of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will not be publishing on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Funding & Policy

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FAA Formalizes Airspace Rules For Hobby Rockets

Sep 04, 2015
The FAA is proposing to update its decades-old rules that do not formally recognize launch and recovery operations for high-powered amateur rockets on U.S. soil.

Technology

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NASA Mulls Path To Nuclear-Rocket Flight Demo

Sep 04, 2015
NASA is re-examining the potential for utilizing nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) in deep-space missions.
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Danish ISS Visitor Plans Telerobotics Demonstration

Sep 04, 2015
Denmark’s first astronaut plans to join with ground-based researchers at ESA’s Telerobotics & Haptics Laboratory in The Netherlands over his weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station to demonstrate technologies for the orbital control of robots on planetary surfaces.

Calendar of Events

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Upcoming Events

Sep 07, 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