Because of the strong bond between the expendable launch vehicle and satellite industries, neither can flourish without the other, and each must analyze the other's overall business health. The launch vehicle industry requires a steady stream of payloads, and both satellite manufacturers and operators require consistent access to these vehicles.
Cape Canaveral's launch rate for unmanned space missions in 2007 will more than double the 2006 rate as major new science and advanced operational and military space technology flights are carried out. Overall, the combined rates at the Cape and Kennedy Space Center will increase 70%, involving hardware worth tens of billions of dollars. Four shuttle missions are planned from KSC, including launch of Europe's Columbus laboratory in November or December. Cape Canaveral AFS will see 13 unmanned missions, compared with six in 2006.
US Airways has provoked a showdown in its takeover attempt of Delta Air Lines, raising the stakes for the bankrupt carrier's creditors by $1 billion in cash and increasing their equity share of the proposed new Delta to 49%.
Despite a decision from the U.S. Army to shelve its Class II and III unmanned aerial system (UAS) programs, Aurora Flight Sciences, one of the affected contractors from the Class II program, is already eyeing another customer. The Navy and Marine Corps are considering a small, tactical UAS for reconnaissance, and Aurora has been one of the contractors responding to inquiries on such a requirement.
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The USAF will conduct a Technology Readiness Review on Jan. 24 of Boeing's sole-source work on the Focused Lethality Munition, which combines the bomb casing of its 250-lb. Small-Diameter Bomb with a new explosive fill designed to contain damage in a small radius. A U.S. Centcom-sponsored Joint Concept Technology Demonstration, with first flight test this summer, and purchase of 50 weapons, is planned thereafter (see p. 412). The first units are slated for delivery in April 2008.
The evolving strategic environment places a premium on operations with allies and partners. With networking, we can form a "global security enterprise." Interconnected operations among our partners in Afghanistan and Iraq provide an early illustration. Another is the concept of a networked, multi-partner 1,000-ship navy, advanced by the U.S. chief of naval operations.
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Air Force Aero Technologies of Australia F/A-18A (54) Aero Technologies of Australia F/A-18B (17) BAE Systems Hawk 127 (33) Boeing 707-320C (4) Boeing 737-700BBJ (2) Bombardier Challenger CL604 (4) De Havilland Australia PC-9 (63) De Havilland Canada DHC-4 (10) General Dynamics F-111C (17) General Dynamics F-111G (7) General Dynamics RF-111C (4) Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 (12) Lockheed AP-3C (18) Lockheed C-130H (12)
Provided with the Assistance of Alexander Velovich (Russian Correspondent, Forecast Interational)
The painful process of restructuring Russia's aircraft industry gained momentum in 2006 with the special decree signed by President Vladimir Putin in February and issued in April entitled "The Strategy for Developing the Aircraft Industry to the Year 2015."
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Air Force Bell Helicopter Textron 430 (1) Bell Helicopter Textron OH-58A (8) Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1H (3) Bell Helicopter Textron UH-1H Huey II (8) CASA C-212-400 (3) Enaer T-35B (7) Hughes Helicopters OH-6A (1) Schweizer 333 (4) Army Bell Helicopter Textron OH-58A (9) Robinson Helicopter Co. R22 (4) Robinson Helicopter Co. R44 (2)
Joseph A. Bannister (see photos) has been promoted to principal director and Ronald L. Owens to associate principal director of the Computer Science and Technology Subdivision of The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, Calif. Bannister was network chief engineer supporting the Transformational Satellite Communications System, while Owens was systems director in the Ground Systems Dept. of the Computer and Systems Engineering Subdivision. Jeffrey H. Smith has been reappointed to the board of trustees.
