Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
U.K. and U.S. personnel will soon begin planning for the trans-Atlantic deployment of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to the U.K. in preparation for the type’s debut at two U.K. air shows this summer.
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By Jay Menon
India has successfully launched its sixth navigation satellite, accomplishing a major step toward developing the country’s own network to help provide location within the country and bordering regions.
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By Tony Osborne
Investigators probing the fatal crash of a former military fighter jet at the Shoreham Airshow last year said show organizers were unaware of the aircraft’s planned display routine.
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Dassault Aviation’s new Falcon 5X business jet will not enter service until the first half of 2020 due to difficulties in developing the Silvercrest engine at Safran’s Snecma motors division.
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By Bradley Perrett
Taiwan’s next advanced trainer will be indigenously developed, Defense Minister Kao Kuang-chi has told members of parliament.
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By Jay Menon
The Laser Cross Section Measurement & Imaging System, or LACSMI, will help ensure Indian warships, tanks and other platforms are harder for laser and infrared guided bombs and missiles to hit.
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The sailors of DDG 78 USS Porter, a guided missile destroyer stationed in Rota, Spain, successfully completed a live-fire test from a SeaRAM missile system earlier this month.
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U.S. Navy engineers have developed a new 1,000-lb. inertial actuator, or "ship shaker," that offers “unprecedented capability in full-scale testing,” the service says.
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The U.S. Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in exercise Ssang Yong 16 (SY16) earlier this month in and around Pohang, South Korea with local forces and those from Australia and New Zealand, the Navy says.
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PRATT & WHITNEY’s F135 engine for F-35 is undergoing sea-level corrosion testing...

Singapore Technology Aerospace (ST Aero) has built a proof-of-concept unmanned hybrid vehicle (UHV) that can be ...

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer – United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) – has completed a reorganization of its top management.
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Europe’s LISA Pathfinder gravitational-wave technology demonstrator was handed over to the European Space Agency (ESA) March 7 after undergoing a series of in-orbit tests led by industrial prime contractor Airbus Defense and Space.
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As the Pentagon considers its options for aerial electronic attack, the focus is shifting toward the improvement of one of the primary sensors for the mission.
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A European Ariane 5 ECA rocket successfully lifted the Eutelsat 65 West A satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on March 9 for Paris-based fleet operator Eutelsat.
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By Mark Carreau
A key French instrument for NASA’s Mars InSight Lander will be re-engineered in a bid to overcome a vacuum leak in time for a May 2018 launch attempt.
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The U.S. needs to continue developing and deploying more longer-range surface-to-surface missiles in the Asia-Pacific, and there is a shortage of submarine forces in the region as well, says Adm. Harry Harris, head of U.S. Pacific Command.
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AEROJET ROCKETDYNE completed series of hot-fire tests of RL10 upper-stage rocket engine.

This week the Satellite 2016 conference gets underway outside Washington.

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, is being awarded a $769,511,730 modification to a previously awarded contract.

By Mark Carreau
U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko emerged from more than 11 months on the International Space Station with perhaps vital clues as to whether humans are physically and psychologically up to the challenges of traveling to Mars.
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By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Dawn mission spacecraft has marked the end of its first year in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres with imagery of yet another curious surface feature.
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By Mark Carreau
The 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has presented its intended successors, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), with a new challenge — find a galaxy older than GN-z11.
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By Jay Menon
India is set to launch its sixth navigation satellite, IRNSS-1F, on March 10, continuing to build a regional navigation system that will provide location services over the country and neighboring areas.
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By Guy Norris
The pace of testing KC-46A mission systems, exterior lighting and ultimately aerial refueling will accelerate after March 8.
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