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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 30, 2022

VOL. 280 NO. 42 May 30, 2022
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Programs

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UK Facing Slow F-35 Deliveries, Lockheed Martin Warns

May 27, 2022
Lockheed Martin has warned that the UK could face a slow delivery profile for future orders of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as it looks to create additional front-line squadrons.
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Boeing Restarts A-10 Wing Deliveries Amidst Fleet Retirement Debate

May 27, 2022
Boeing and KAI re-activated the tooling from storage to produce the new batch of wing sets for the A-10. 
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Exosonic Teams With EpiSys Science For Drone Autonomy Suite

May 27, 2022
Los Angeles-based startup Exosonic will use the Tactical AI suite from Poway, California-based EpiSys Science in a supersonic drone demonstrator being designed for the U.S. Air Force. 
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Natilus Tunnel Tests Blended Wing Body Uncrewed Regional Feeder

May 26, 2022
U.S. startup Natilus is conducting wind tunnel tests of the initial regional feeder member of its planned family of blended wing body uncrewed cargo aircraft.
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Preparations Underway For Second Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal Try

May 27, 2022
NASA plans to roll back the Artemis I mission Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule to its Kennedy Space Center launchpad on June 6 for a second run at a Wet Dress Rehearsal.
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SDA Awards General Dynamics $325M Contract For NDSA

May 27, 2022
The Space Development Agency has awarded a $325 million contract to General Dynamics Missions Systems to establish the ground operations and integration segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.
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Astroscale Gets Nearly $16M From Europe For Elsa-M Servicer

May 27, 2022
Astroscale will build its Elsa-M satellite servicer for European customers and perhaps others with the goal of a late-2024 launch after a €14.8 million ($15.9 million) infusion via a European Space Agency and OneWeb alliance.
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Dutch AH-64Ds Enter Remanufacture As Budgets Get Boosted

May 27, 2022
Boeing has inducted the first Dutch AH-64D Apache attack helicopter for remanufacture to AH-64E v6 standard.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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Lockheed Delivers 800th F-35 After. 15 Years

May 27, 2022
The first production version of the F-35 was ordered in 2007 and delivered four years later. 

Funding & Policy

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Space Force Orders Eight Launches From ULA, SpaceX

May 27, 2022
Space Systems Command on May 26 ordered eight launches from United Launch Alliance and SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement program.

Operations

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Romania Restarting MiG-21 Operations

May 27, 2022
Romania is restarting MiG-21 operations just more than a month after they had supposedly been permanently suspended over safety concerns.

Business

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LeoLabs To Provide LEO Object Tracking To Japanese Military

May 26, 2022
LeoLabs argues that government space situational awareness capabilities cannot keep track of the growing number of objects in space.

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