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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, August 8, 2023

VOL. 285 NO. 26 August 08, 2023
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Weekly Debrief

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The Weekly Debrief: DARPA Wants To Capture The Next Chinese Spy Balloon

Aug 07, 2023
Instead of shooting down the next buoyant airspace intruder, DARPA wants to find a way to haul high-altitude balloons down safely from up to 75,000 ft.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Operations

Chandrayaan-3 in lunar orbit
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 Spacecraft Reaches Lunar Orbit

Aug 07, 2023
India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, setting the stage for a landing attempt on the Moon's south pole later this month. 
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Boeing Retargeting March 2024 For Starliner Crew Flight Test

Aug 07, 2023
Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.
Hot-firing Starship booster
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SpaceX Fires Up Next Starship Super Heavy Booster

Aug 07, 2023
SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.
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UK Provides New Asraam Air Defense Weapon In Ukraine

Aug 07, 2023
The UK has provided Ukraine with a new rapidly developed air defense capability based on MBDA’s Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Asraam). 
NASA Voyager
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Resumes Communications With Earth

Aug 06, 2023
The resumption of communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network follows a “shout” command transmitted to the probe by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Watch: China’s AutoFlight Flies Three eVTOLs In Formation

Jul 27, 2023
China’s AutoFlight is claiming a world first with the formation flight of three prototypes of its planned Prosperity 1 air taxi.

Funding & Policy

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Amazon Moves Kuiper Prototypes Off ULA Vulcan

Aug 07, 2023
Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.
Akinci
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Turkish Industry To Support Saudi Arabia's UAS Ambitions

Aug 07, 2023
Turkish Baykar-developed UAS and their associated weapons and sensors will be produced in Saudi Arabia under new export agreements between Ankara and Riyadh.

Technology

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Pale Blue To Supply Water-Based Propulsion For Formation Flying Sats

Aug 07, 2023
Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.

Programs

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Lockheed NGI Passes Subsystems PDR, On Track For 2027 Fielding

Aug 07, 2023
The company announced Aug. 7 that all elements of its NGI have been validated ahead of another PDR for the entire all-up round.
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Collins Completes MS-110 F-16 Integration

Aug 02, 2023
RTX business Collins Aerospace has announced that integration of its MS-110 sensor onto the F-16 aircraft has been completed.

Business

Baykar
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Baykar To Launch R&D Efforts In Pakistan

Aug 07, 2023
Turkish uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturer Baykar is to undertake research and development activities in Pakistan under a new project led by the Pakistan Air Force.

Contracts