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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, December 23, 2015

VOL. 254 NO. 58 December 23, 2015

Programs

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Seismometer Issues Jeopardize NASA’s Mars InSight

Dec 22, 2015
NASA has scuttled plans for a March 2016 launch of the multinational Mars InSight lander because of an inability to resolve a small vacuum leak in a key European instrument.
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Turkey Tests Armed Indigenous UAV

Dec 22, 2015
Turkey’s Baykar Makina and Kale Kalip have completed the first tests of an indigenous armed UAV capability.
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SpaceX Nails First-Stage Landing After Falcon 9 Returns to Flight

Dec 22, 2015
Success in recovering the Falcon 9 first stage marks a major step toward the long-sought dream of reusable commercial space launchers.
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France Orders Additional Tiger Attack Helicopters

Dec 22, 2015
The French government has formally ordered an additional seven Airbus Tiger HAD attack helicopters in line with the defense ministry’s 2014-2019 plan.
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SpaceShipTwo Readied For February Rollout

Dec 22, 2015
Virgin Galactic is expected to complete assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo suborbital space vehicle in time for external painting to take place over the holiday break.
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Japan Joins U.S., Russia, Canada In Plans To Extend ISS Operations

Dec 22, 2015
Japan will join NASA and the space agencies of Russia and Canada in extending operations of the International Space Station from 2020 to 2024.
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Ingalls Shipbuilding Wins $34.8m USS San Antonio Contract

Dec 20, 2015
The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) was awarded a $34.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract earlier this month for lifecycle engineering and support services on the U.S. Navy’s LPD 17 USS San Antonio class of amphibious transport docks, the company has confirmed.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Dec 24, 2015
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $1.17b Pentagon advance acquisition contract for advance procurement of ...

In Brief

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GAO Sustains 12% Of Bid Protests

Dec 24, 2015
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained slightly more than one in every 10 bid protests ...

Operations

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Security Concerns Color Asian Relationships – Analyst

Dec 18, 2015
As Japan, South Korea (ROK), and China start to work on better trilateral relationships, security concerns continue to drive wedges between the nations, says Evans Revere, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior adviser with the Albright Stonebridge Group.

Funding & Policy

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New Carter Directions Will Put Spotlight On Navy Bandwidth

Dec 22, 2015
With the new acquisition directions from Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the U.S. Navy will soon have to better address some of its bedeviling bandwidth issues.
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U.S., India, Japan Look To Moderate China’s Behavior

Dec 20, 2015
U.S., Indian and Japanese officials recently recognized the importance of working with China on global issues, but agreed that such agreements are not moderating Chinese behavior in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, a CSIS report says.