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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 23, 2021

VOL. 276 NO. 15 April 23, 2021
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Programs

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Turkey’s Ouster From F-35 Program Results In F135 Engine Cost Hike

Apr 22, 2021
The F-35 program is facing 3% cost growth of the F135 engine in Lot 15 because of Turkey’s ouster from the program.
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Qatari Air Force Orders Pilatus PC-24s

Apr 22, 2021
Qatar’s air force is to become the second military customer for Pilatus’ PC-24 business jet, the Swiss manufacturer has revealed.
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USAF Measuring F-35 Affordability By Tails, Not Flying Hours 

Apr 22, 2021
There are mixed opinions among the services on how to make the fifth-generation fighter affordable. 
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Kopter’s SH09 Renamed AW09, Reflecting Leonardo Ownership

Apr 21, 2021
Kopter Group’s SH09 single-engine light helicopter has been rebranded the AW09 to reflect the aircraft’s entry into the product line of Leonardo Helicopters.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Makes Second Flight On Mars

Apr 22, 2021
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter added 51.9 sec. of flight time during a second demonstration of controlled powered flight on Mars.
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New Turkish Glide Bomb For Akinci Drone Emerges

Apr 22, 2021
Turkey’s Roketsan has developed a new glide bomb to be used with the Baykar Makina’s Akinci twin-engine medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.
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Skydweller Tests Systems For Unmanned Solar Impulse 2

Apr 19, 2021
Skydweller Aero has flight tested the control system to be used in conversion of the Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered round-the-world aircraft into a long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
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Airbus Gears Up For OneSat Production

Apr 21, 2021
Airbus’ OneSat new-generation satellite program is ready to enter the production phase, says Francois Gaullier, head of Airbus Telecom Systems.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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Indian Navy MH-60 Makes First Flight

Apr 22, 2021
The first MH-60R helicopter for the Indian Navy flew for the first time in Owego, New York, where Sikorsky is producing the aircraft, U.S. Naval Air Systems Command said in a tweet.

Funding & Policy

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Airbus Commits To Using Isar’s Spectrum Micro-Launcher

Apr 22, 2021
Satellite manufacturer Airbus Defense and Space has committed to one launch and an undisclosed number of optional launches with Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum micro-launcher.

Business

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Drone Repair Company Attracts New Investment

Apr 21, 2021
Robotic Skies, which is building a maintenance service network for commercial and industrial drones, has received an investment from Japan-based Drone Fund.
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Daily Memo: Competition Heats Up In UAM Market

Apr 15, 2021
With more than 100 companies vying to enter the nascent advanced air mobility industry, the competition was always going to get bloody sooner or later. 
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LeoLabs Commissions Costa Rica Space Radar

Apr 22, 2021
Space situational awareness startup LeoLabs has declared its fourth space radar site fully operational in Costa Rica.
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Startup Plans To Identify Energy-Wasting Buildings From Space

Apr 22, 2021
UK startup Satellite Vu has raised £3.6 million ($5 million) in seed funding to begin building a thermal-imaging satellite constellation that will be able to measure the energy efficiency of any building in the world from low Earth orbit.

Operations

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Netherlands Grounds F-35s Over Engine Wear Concerns

Apr 22, 2021
The Netherlands has temporarily halted operations with its Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet over concerns about engine wear. 
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Rideshare Partner Delays Navigation Technology Satellite-3 Launch

Apr 22, 2021
The U.S. military has pushed launch of the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) into fiscal 2023 at the request of a rideshare partner.
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QinetiQ Adds Helicopters To Test Pilot School Fleet

Apr 19, 2021
The UK’s Empire Test Pilots School is to receive three additional helicopters to support its training fleet.

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