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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, December 4, 2015

VOL. 254 NO. 45 December 04, 2015

Programs

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India Hopes To Activate Vietnam Satellite Monitoring Station

Dec 03, 2015
India is hoping to soon activate its newest satellite tracker in Vietnam, which will help monitor satellites launched from India and receive data from them.
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PlanetiQ Buys PSLV Launches For Its Weathersat Constellation

Dec 03, 2015
A Colorado-based startup that hopes to use a constellation of small radio-occultation satellites to deliver weather data commercially has signed a contract with Antrix Corp. Ltd. to launch on India’s Polar Space Launch Vehicle beginning late next year.
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South Korea’s KF-X Still Treading Water

Dec 03, 2015
South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program will tread water again in 2016 but has at least survived a risk of cancellation that it has faced over the past few months.
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NAC Ponders NASA’s Mars Tech Investment Priorities

Dec 03, 2015
NASA may have to focus its cost-constrained technology investments on human missions launched into an Earth/Moon proving ground through the 2020s rather than placing boots on the Martian terrain in the decade to follow, members of the NASA Advisory Council suggest.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Dec 05, 2015
BOEING has $41m U.S. AIR FORCE contract for six-month integrated fleet support for C-32, C-40 aircraft; work expected complete June 30, 2016. RAYTHEON has $52m U.S. NAVY contract for repair of 41 different part numbers, repairs supporting F-18 aircraft; work expected complete by December 2017.

Intelligence

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KRET To Overhaul Avionics For Russia’s Massive Bomber

Dec 05, 2015
Radio-Electronic Technologies Concern (KRET) is building a new avionics system for a modernized version of Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber. The company will build new controls, a “gimballess” inertial navigation system, electronic warfare equipment, fuel monitoring and weapons control systems. The avionics suite will be completed by 2020, the company vows. The avionics package “will mean the creation of a completely new aircraft,” KRET says.

Technology

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Europe's LISA Pathfinder Lifts Off Atop Vega Launcher

Dec 03, 2015
Europe's LISA Pathfinder gravitational-wave-detection mission was successfully placed into orbit Dec. 3 after lifting off atop a Vega light launcher from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.
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Cygnus Launch Delayed By Weather

Dec 03, 2015
Rain and thick clouds over Cape Canaveral forced mission managers to delay the planned Dec. 3 launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus commercial cargo vehicle with more than 7,300 lb. of supplies for the International Space Station.