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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 5, 2021

VOL. 275 NO. 43 March 05, 2021
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Funding & Policy

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Belgian Politicians To Question F-35 Buy After USAF Chief’s Remarks

Mar 04, 2021
Belgian politicians are set to question the country’s need to buy the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after the chief of the U.S. Air Force announced plans for studies into its future force mix and a potential clean-sheet fighter design to replace the F-16.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Programs

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Starship Flies, Soft Lands, Then Explodes

Mar 04, 2021
SpaceX’s March 3 high-altitude test of a full-scale Starship prototype managed a soft landing—unlike two previous test vehicles—but then exploded 3 min. after touching down at the company’s facility in Boca Chica Beach, Texas.
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NASA Bumps Starliner Reflight Behind SpaceX Crew-2 Launch

Mar 04, 2021
NASA is bumping the upcoming reflight of Boeing’s uncrewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft until sometime after the arrival of four astronauts aboard SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon taxi flight to the International Space Station. 
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Flint Hills Solutions, UAV Navigation Partner On UAS Helicopter

Mar 02, 2021
Flint Hills Solutions has partnered with UAV Navigation to integrate their joint technologies into the FH-900 Series autonomous Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial System helicopter.

Operations

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Starlink Gains Another 60 Satellites

Mar 04, 2021
Nine hours after a SpaceX team in Texas landed a full-scale Starship prototype for the first time, colleagues in Florida launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 60 more satellites for the company’s high-speed internet service system. 

Technology

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NASA Seeks Bids For Electrified Propulsion Demo

Mar 03, 2021
NASA plans an industry day on March 9 for the Electrified Power train Flight Demonstration project to flight test megawatt-class electric aircraft propulsion systems.

Business

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AR-based Air Combat Trainer Startup Red 6 Lands Roper, $7M

Mar 04, 2021
Red 6, a California startup aiming to provide air combat training with augmented reality technology, has landed $7 million in new funding and signed former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper to its advisory board.
Ortberg
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Daily Memo: What Happened To Kelly Ortberg?

Mar 04, 2021
Kelly Ortberg’s quiet departure from the executive ranks of Raytheon Technologies was a jolt to some veterans in the aerospace business community, where he has long been regarded as an exceptional talent in the prime of his career. 
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TransDigm Sells More Former Esterline Businesses For $200M

Mar 01, 2021
TransDigm Group announced March 1 that it will sell two businesses it acquired from Esterline Technologies, ScioTeq and Treality Simulation Visual Systems, to private equity investor OpenGate Capital in a deal worth around $200 million.
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Venus Aerospace To Pursue Hypersonic Air Passenger Travel

Mar 03, 2021
Startup Venus Aerospace plans to proceed with the development, testing and production of a small hypersonic aircraft capable of  transporting a dozen passengers or time-critical payloads between major continental destinations in an hour.

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