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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 14, 2019

VOL. 268 NO. 32 May 14, 2019
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Funding & Policy

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NASA Seeks Additional $1.6B To Speed Human Lunar Return

May 13, 2019
Seven weeks after calling for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024, President Donald Trump announced the price tag for expediting the program: an extra $1.6 billion for fiscal 2020.

SpeedNews Defense & Space

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SpeedNews Defense & Space

May 15, 2019
INDRA won contract to supply C-130-transportable LTR25 L-band radar to UK Royal Air Force.

In Brief

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The Week Ahead In Aerospace & Defense

May 15, 2019
On Wednesday House appropriators will mark up their version of the fiscal 2020 defense spending bill in a closed session.

Business

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Virgin Galactic Moves SS2 Rocket-powered Tests To New Mexico

May 13, 2019
Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.
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Bristow Enters Chapter 11, Sells Eastern Airways

May 13, 2019
Bristow Group has joined a growing list of offshore helicopters operators to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a bid to restructure its operation.

Programs

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Boeing Hands Over First AH-64E To India

May 13, 2019
Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.
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Autonomous, Air-dropped Vehicles Eyed For Rescue

May 13, 2019
The USAF has described a possible new approach to rescuing down pilots and wounded soldiers: Air-drop an autonomous aircraft to pick them up and fly them to safety.
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SpaceX To Send 60 Broadband Sats To LEO

May 13, 2019
SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.
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U.S. Air National Guard To Trial BriteCloud Decoy

May 13, 2019
The U.S. Air National Guard is to conduct trials with Leonardo’s BriteCloud expendable active decoy as part of the U.S. Foreign Comparative Testing program.
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Hayabusa 2 Surveys Ryugu For Possible Subsurface Sample Grab

May 13, 2019
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is set to descend close to the surface of Ryugu, the long-running mission’s sample return destination, this week.

Contracts

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Selected U.S. Military Contracts For The Week Of May 6 - 10, 2019

May 15, 2019
Harris Corp., Clifton, New Jersey, has been awarded $71,761,512 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering services.