BERP: better blades for Merlin.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief
article)
Agusta Westland has successfully completed the qualification flight
testing of the new generation BERP IV AW101 main rotor blades. The new
technology blades will enter operational service in early . . .
Messier inaugurates landing gear test centre.(BUSINESS
BRIEFING)(Messier-Dowty)(Brief article)
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Messier-Dowry has officially inaugurated a new landing gear systems
test I centre for the A400M programme. Opened n mid-2006 in close
partnerships with systems specialist . . .
Geared Turbofan enters ground testing.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief
article)
Pratt & Whitney announced on 13 November that its Geared
Turbofan demonstrator engine had successfully completed its first ground
test, ahead of schedule, at the company's advanced test facility . . .
Terma.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article)
* Terma of Demark and the Netherlands' NLR National Aerospace
Laboratory have signed a cooperation agreement within the framework of
establishing a European Electronic Warfare Competence Center, . . .
Elbit Systems Ltd.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief article)
* Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its board of directors, as well
as the board of directors of its wholly-owned subsidiary Tadiran
Communications Ltd., have approved a plan to merge . . .
Rolls-Royce expands non-UK footprint.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)
Rolls-Royce has announced plans to invest in two new aero engine
facilities in Singapore and in Virginia in the United States "in
order to meet the increasing needs of its global business and . . .
A new body--the Joint Government/Industry Space Cost Analysis and
Estimating Improvement Council.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Brief
artic
* A new body--the Joint Government/Industry Space Cost Analysis and
Estimating Improvement Council--has been formed in an effort to bridge
huge differences in the estimated costs of military space . . .
GE celebrates CF34 milestone.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(GE Aircraft
Engines)
GE's CF34 engine family has celebrated its fifteenth birthday.
The 3,600 CF34 engines in service have accumulated more than 40 million
engine hours. The first member of the family was the CF343 . . .
Snecma starts Silvercrest core test campaign.(BUSINESS
BRIEFING)(Societe Nationale d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs
d'Aviat
Snecma has started the test campaign of the Silvercrest core engine
demonstrator in the Villaroche test facility in France. The core
demonstrator is fully instrumented with temperature, pressure . . .
During the course of a state visit to China by French President
Nicolas Sarkozy on 24-27 November.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)
* During the course of a state visit to China by French President
Nicolas Sarkozy on 24-27 November, Airbus signed an MoU with the
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to formalise . . .
Aerojet.(BUSINESS BRIEFING)(Aerojet General Corp.)(Brief
article)
* Aerojet has completed testing of its Advanced Combined Cycle
Integrated Inlet (ACCII). The test campaign, performed at the NASA
Langley Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) test facility, represents . . .
Calendar.(Calendar)
DATE EVENT CONTACT
OCTOBER
2-4 Helitech 2007, Duxford, UK www.helitech.co.uk
4-5 AeroSpace and Defence www.asd-europe.org
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Stability returns to comsat market: orders are expected to remain
in the low twenties for the next few years.(SPACE)
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The 5th World Symposium on Market Forecasts for the Satellite
Business, organised by consulting company Euroconsult in Paris on 3
September, was the occasion for satellite . . .
Lockheed Martin.(SPACE)(Brief article)
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $178 million contract by NASA to
design and build the agency's Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI). SUVI
is a series of extreme ultraviolet instruments that will fly. . . .
US/EU final agreement on GPS-Galileo civil signal.(SPACE)
The US and the EU have announced their agreement to jointly adopt
and provide an improved design for their respective Global Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS) signals. These signals will be . . .
NRL's "tow truck" technology for
satellites.(SPACE)
The Naval Research Laboratory's Naval Center for Space
Technology says it has achieved a key milestone toward the development
of autonomous servicing of unaided spacecraft. Working with the . . .
Phoenix on course for Mars.(SPACE)(Phoenix Mars Lander)(United
States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully accomplished on 10
August the first and largest of six course corrections planned during
the spacecraft's flight from Earth to Mars.
Phoenix left Earth on . . .
Forecast International.(SPACE)
In a new study, "Commercial Communications Satellites,
2007-2016," Forecast International is projecting deliveries of
approximately 218 commercial communications satellites destined . . .
SBIRS programme under attack in new report.(SPACE)
News that Lockheed Martin had successfully mated the spacecraft bus
and the payload for the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS)
geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite was overshadowed by a . . .
SELENE.(SPACE)(SELenological and ENgineering Explorer)(Brief
article)
The SELenological and ENgineering Explorer "KAGUYA"
(SELENE), Japans first large lunar explorer, was successfully launched
on 14 September by H-IIA launch vehicle No. 13. The mission, which is
the . . .
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