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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, May 9, 2023

VOL. 284 NO. 27 May 09, 2023
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Weekly Debrief

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The Weekly Debrief: Is Kinzhal Merely A Dagger Of The Mind?

May 08, 2023
President Vladimir Putin described the Kinzhal as the “most important” of the six modern weapon systems he revealed in a Kremlin speech on March 1, 2018.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Programs

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Transcend Teams With IAI On High-Speed VTOL

May 08, 2023
Transcend Air has partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries’ North American operation to develop military applications for its planned Vy family of VTOLs.
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Report Highlights Issues Facing DOD’s Hypersonic Test Infrastructure

May 08, 2023
The U.S. military’s top test facilities for hypersonic weapons are facing issues with equipment reliability and parts obsolescence.
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Poland Expresses Interest In KF-21 Program

May 08, 2023
Polish defense prime Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa is eager to participate in South Korea’s KF-21 fighter program.
Blue Spear
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Singapore Confirms Blue Spear Missile For Navy

May 05, 2023
Singapore has confirmed that it will be equipping its upgraded stealth frigates with the Proteus Blue Spear surface-to-surface missile.
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Sidus, Lulav Space Partner On Lunar Guidance Navigation And Control

May 02, 2023
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.

Operations

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Virgin Galactic Targets Late May Return To Suborbit

May 08, 2023
Virgin Galactic plans to return to space later this month with a fully crewed test flight of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.
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China’s Mysterious Spacecraft Returns To Earth

May 08, 2023
China’s secretive “reusable test spacecraft” returned to Earth on May 8 after 276 days in orbit, state media Xinhua has reported.
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Crew Dragon Redock Makes Way For ISS Private Astronaut, Cargo Missions

May 06, 2023
The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.
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Hurricane-Tracking Cubesats Delivered Into Orbit By Rocket Lab

May 08, 2023
Less than a year after losing their ride to space, a pair of novel hurricane-tracking cubesats have been delivered into orbit for NASA.

Funding & Policy

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FAA Refines Corridor Concept For UAM Operations

May 04, 2023
The FAA has updated its concept of operations for urban air mobility.
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USSF Posts New Draft RFP For Space Test Program Experiments

May 08, 2023
The U.S. Space Force wants industry feedback on its new approach to buying satellites for its space test experiments.
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FAA, EASA Talk eVTOL Certification Transferability, Not Harmonization

May 02, 2023
European and U.S. regulators are working to ensure transferability of eVTOL type certificates.

Business

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In-Space Opens Prospects For New Aerojet Rocketdyne Engine Family

May 05, 2023
Test and development of smaller Bantam engines has been underway for around a decade.

Contracts