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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 8, 2020

VOL. 271 NO. 4 January 08, 2020
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Business

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Arianespace Plans Up To 20 Launches In 2020

Jan 07, 2020
Launch service operator Arianespace is planning up to 20 launches with its Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega rockets in 2020.
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Boeing Confirms Mid-January MAX Pause; Spirit Aero Starts Layoffs

Jan 06, 2020
Boeing on Jan. 6 provided more details on how the 737 MAX production pause will progress, while major program supplier Spirit AeroSystems said it will begin accepting “voluntary” layoffs.
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Dassault’s Falcon Sales Decline Again, Rafale Deliveries Surge

Jan 07, 2020
Deliveries of Dassault’s Falcon business jets have hit a new bottom, at 40 in 2019.
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Meggitt Invests In 3D Printing Metals Company HiETA

Jan 07, 2020
British aerospace and defense supplier Meggitt has invested in HiETA Technologies, another UK company that focuses on metal additive manufacturing.

Daily Briefs

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Daily Briefs

Jan 08, 2020
ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD. has $31m initial Israeli Ministry of Defense contract for Iron Fist Active Protection Systems for the Eitan Armored Fighting Vehicles.

in Brief

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Esper Chief Of Staff To Depart Pentagon Role

Jan 08, 2020
Eric Chewning, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s chief of staff, will leave his job at the end of January.

Operations

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SpaceX Deploys 60 More Starlink Broadband Sats

Jan 07, 2020
SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.
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SpaceX Dragon Returns Space Station Cargo

Jan 07, 2020
SpaceX’s 19th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission spacecraft returned to Earth Jan. 7.

Programs

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U.S. Navy Launches E-2D Sustainment Pilot Program

Jan 07, 2020
The U.S. Navy has kicked off a pilot program focusing on better sustainment of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne surveillance aircraft.
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Turkish Aerospace Preparing Third Prototype T625 For Flight Test

Jan 07, 2020
Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the third prototype of its T625 Gokbey twin-engine medium helo as it begins to accelerate the aircraft’s flight-test program.
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Smallsat Exoplanet Hunter Goes Silent

Jan 07, 2020
The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) sat effort to miniaturize a spacecraft for extrasolar planet detection, has gone quiet.
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Ukraine Border Guards Receive H125 Helicopters

Jan 07, 2020
Ukraine has begun taking delivery of H125 single-engine light helicopters from Airbus.
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Terrafugia Co-Founder Unveils First-Responder eVTOL Venture

Jan 07, 2020
Petaluma, California-based Jump Aero is developing a small, fast, short-range vehicle for transporting first responders.

Funding & Policy

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USAF Redesignates 14th Air Force To Space Force

Dec 30, 2019
The U.S. Air Force secretary has transferred 14th Air Force to the U.S. Space Force.