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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 16, 2016

VOL. 257 NO. 32 August 16, 2016

Programs

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KC-46 Gets Pentagon Blessing To Enter Serial Production

Aug 13, 2016
Contracts for seven and 12 aircraft totaling $2.8 billion are expected “within 30 days,” following the tanker's successful Milestone C review.
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Five C-130Hs to Join Indonesian Air Force

Aug 15, 2016
Indonesia’s military transport fleet will be boosted by five C-130H Hercules airlifters by the end of 2017.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

Aug 17, 2016
AEROJET ROCKETDYNE has NASA contract to mature MPS-130 CubeSat propulsion system using green propellant known as AF-M315E.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Washington

Aug 17, 2016
Thursday morning in Washington, the Center for Strategic and International Studies will host a discussion on the ...

Technology

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NASA Selects Techs for Rapid Feasibility Demos

Aug 15, 2016
NASA’s burgeoning push to develop technology for electric aircraft propulsion is evident in the latest series of fast-paced feasibility demonstrations to be funded under the agency’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project.
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Russia Flies Solar-Powered Endurance UAV

Aug 17, 2016
Russia’s equivalent of DARPA has flown the subscale prototype of a solar-powered long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
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Kepler Forges Ahead After Loss of Third Camera Sensor

Aug 15, 2016
NASA’s exoplanet-seeking Kepler space telescope has resumed science operations after the apparent loss in late July of a third focal plane detector module in the observatory’s photometer, the project manager says.
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Honeywell Powerplant Chosen For XTI’s TriFan 600

Aug 16, 2016
XTI Aircraft has selected Honeywell’s HTS900 turboshaft to power a two-thirds-scale prototype of its ducted-fan TriFan 600.
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SpaceX Sticks Another Landing

Aug 14, 2016
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a U.S.-built Japanese communications Satellite early Aug. 14, and used three of its nine engines to return its first stage to a picture-perfect tail-down landing on a robotic barge downrange from the Cape Canaveral launch site.

Forecasts/Industry Data

Funding & Policy

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Challenges Seen In Asian Nuclear ‘Multipolarity’

Aug 17, 2016
The U.S. will have to rethink its policy and strategic force structure to deal with Asian nuclear “multipolarity.”

Operations

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RAF Pilot Who Sent A330 Into Plunge With Camera To Be Court-Martialed

Aug 14, 2016
Charges for the Royal Air Force pilot who sent an Airbus A330 Voyager tanker into a dive are perjury, making a false record and negligently performing a duty, according to a British newspaper report.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts, Week of Aug. 8-12, 2016

Aug 17, 2016
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $129,429,079 modification (P00047) to a foreign military sales contract W31P4Q-12-C-0265 for procurement of ...