Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Sept, 9

Sweden Getting Defense Spending Boost

Gripen: Saab

Sweden will increase defense spending by 5 billion Krona ($500 million) a year from 2022 through 2025.

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Japan Flight Tests Sensor Suite For Future Fighter

MHI F-2 testbed with integrated sensor suite: Japanese Ministry of Defense

Japan has flight tested an integrated suite of sensors for its next fighter, creating a single system from a gallium-nitride radar, a passive radio-frequency sensor and an infrared camera.

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USAF Shows Off B-1B With More Bombs, Hypersonic Missile

B-1B: USAF

USAF officials have demoed a weapons bay modification that would expand the internal weapons capacity of the B-1B by 75% and allow the bomber to carry a hypersonic missile.

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Arianespace, Maxar See GEO Market Rebound

Ariane launch: ESA

The market for geostationary satellites, which until recently was going through a trough, is picking up, according to the CEOs of launch service operator Arianespace and satellite manufacturer Maxar Technologies.

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Imagery Reveals Silent Chandrayaan-2 Landed Hard

Efforts by the Indian Space Research Organization to re-establish comms with the Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lunar lander continued Sept. 9, a day after imagery revealed Vikram had landed in one piece but hard.

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Combat Rescue Helo Program To Convene For LRIP Decision

HH-60W: USMC

The Sikorsky HH-60W program will meet with U.S. Air Force leadership Sept. 24 to determine if the new search-and-rescue helicopter is green lighted for low-rate initial production, a company executive says.

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