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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, June 6, 2022

VOL. 280 NO. 46 June 06, 2022
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Funding & Policy

USAF F-35As over Alaska
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Swiss Government To Proceed With F-35 Purchase By March 2023 

Jun 03, 2022
Bern’s Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport says it can sign contracts before the “Stop F-35” initiative can be voted on. 
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Space Force’s GMTI Force Design Plan To Finish This Month

Jun 02, 2022
The U.S. Space Force this month will finalize its force design for how it will move the ground moving target indication mission from aircraft to space, with the plan to shape the 2024 budget request. The U.S. Air Force wants to retire its E-8C Joint Stars that currently serve in this role, with much of the capability to come from satellites. This plan faces several hurdles, however, not the least of which is physics.
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Denmark OKs Referendum Favoring Closer EU Defense Alignment

Jun 02, 2022
Voters in Denmark have approved a referendum in favor of closer defense cooperation with the European Union.
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NASA Adds Partners To AAM National Campaign

Jun 01, 2022
NASA has added more industry partners to its Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign, signing Space Act Agreements with vehicle developers Electra Aero, Overair and Supernal as well as urban transportation consultants Ellis & Associates.

Daily Briefs

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Daily Briefs

Jun 03, 2022
SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA announced formation of SONY SPACE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. to develop small optical comms devices for LEO microsatellites…

In Brief

Programs

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USAF Solicitation Outlines Planned C-17 Upgrades

Jun 03, 2022
The U.S. Air Force is planning a flight deck upgrade to avoid expected obsolescence issues and a lack of spares that could ground the C-17 fleet.
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UK Upgrading Tomahawk Stocks

Jun 01, 2022
The UK is to upgrade its stock of submarine-launched Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missiles, improving their range and resilience against jamming threats.
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South Korea Upgrading More Patriots To PAC-3s

Jun 02, 2022
South Korea’s Defense Project Promotion Committee has OK’d spending KRW750 billion ($605 million) to upgrade the country’s MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles from the PAC-2 to the PAC-3 standard.
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Kleos Space Wins USN Contract For Geolocation Tracking Experiment

Jun 01, 2022
The U.S. Navy has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Kleos Space to provide radio frequency geolocation data as part of an experiment.
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Ursa Major Offering New Arroway Rocket Engine

Jun 02, 2022
Startup propulsion company Ursa Major announced June 2 that it is offering a 200,000 lb. thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged-combustion rocket engine called Arroway.
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Chinese eVTOL Startup TCab Picks Safran Power

May 31, 2022
Since China’s EHang burst onto the scene in 2016, the country has lagged the U.S. and Europe in numbers of startups entering the nascent advanced air mobility market.
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Lilium Touts Transition Milestone In eVTOL Testing

May 31, 2022
Achieving transition from rotor-borne vertical to wing-borne horizontal flight is a key milestone in the development of a winged electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft–a landmark that surprisingly few of the advanced air mobility startups have yet reached.
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First NASA SunRISE Constellation Smallsat Clears Ground Test

Jun 01, 2022
The initial Protoflight Model small satellite for NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment mission has completed functional and environmental testing at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory.

Technology

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Honeywell Generator Passes Megawatt Milestone

May 31, 2022
Honeywell is looking to push continuous operation of its megawatt generator to higher levels having recently run the hybrid-electric aircraft power system at up to 1.02 megawatts.

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