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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 6, 2021

VOL. 276 NO. 24 May 06, 2021
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Programs

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Blue Origin Solicits Bids For July 20 First Crewed Launch

May 05, 2021
Blue Origin plans to send human crewmembers to suborbital space for the first time on July 20 on its New Shepard rocket, the company said in a May 5 statement.
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Grob 120TP Selected For Swedish Basic Training

May 05, 2021
Sweden has chosen Grob’s 120TP turboprop as the basic trainer for its air force.
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Turkish Aerospace To Begin Hurjet Prototype Assembly

May 05, 2021
Turkish Aerospace is to begin assembly of the first prototype Hurjet jet trainer in June as the company targets a first flight by the end of 2022.
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Startup Receives NASA Contract To Develop In-Orbit Propellant Depot

May 04, 2021
Startup Eta Space is to demonstrate technologies for propellant depots in space under a NASA contract to build a test payload for launch into low Earth orbit in late 2023 on a Rocket Lab Photon satellite.
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AFRL Contracts For LEO Sat Demo To Connect Arctic Region

May 05, 2021
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has selected Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb to demonstrate low Earth orbit satellite communications to connect the remote Arctic region with sites around the globe.
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Beta Alia eVTOL Begins U.S. Air Force Flight Tests

May 05, 2021
Flight testing of the Beta Technologies’ Alia for the U.S. Air Force has begun after the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft received airworthiness approval under the service’s Agility Prime program.
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Skyborg Brain Flies For First Time On Surrogate UAS

May 05, 2021
A Kratos UTAP-22 Mako UAS flew a 2-hr., 10-min. flight test on April 29 from Tyndall AFB, Florida, to launch Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation program this year with the Skyborg ACS, which was integrated by Leidos.

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Technology

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USAF Eyes Autonomous Inspector Small Spacecraft Tech

May 05, 2021
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is asking industry for ideas for small, autonomous spacecraft that could inspect and repair other satellites in geosynchronous orbit—and to ultimately develop a flight experiment concept.

Operations

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USAF Scrubs Unarmed ICBM Test Launch

May 05, 2021
The cause of the ground abort minutes or hours before the planned launch on May 5 remains under investigation.

Business

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Former Albany CEO Now Head Of PE-backed Cadence Aerospace

May 05, 2021
Olivier Jarrault, most recently CEO of LEAP engine blade maker Albany International during a dynamic two-year stint, is now CEO of Cadence Aerospace, a relatively new private equity-backed machined-parts producer for aerospace and defense OEMs and others.

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