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July 12, 2016

Airborne 07.12.16: Full ISS Crew, Delta's JetFuel Goof, AirVenture, WingX Pro7

Also: Aero-Calendar, Dreamliner Vid, Havana, NextGen Contract, AirSprint, Canadian TSB

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency joined their Expedition 48 crew members aboard the International Space Station early in the morning and on July 9. This brings the total crew count to six. In the coming months, the crewmates are scheduled to receive multiple cargo resupply flights delivering several tons of food, fuel, supplies and research. This report could fall under the title of, “You have to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.” Delta Airlines has taken a $450 million hit on fuel contracts because the price did not rise as anticipated. CNN reports that the

Virgin Spaceship Unity Expected To Begin Flight Test In August

But Powered Tests Will Not Be Conducted Until 2017 At The Earliest, Company Says

The replacement suborbital spacecraft built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic could begin flight testing as early as next month ... but powered flight will likely not occur until sometime in 2017, according to the company.

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Navy MUOS-5 Satellite Transfer Maneuver Temporarily Halted

Spacecraft Reconfigured Into Safe Intermediate Orbit

The fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite, which successfully launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 on June 24, was projected to reach its geosynchronous orbit and enter its test location 22,000 miles above Hawaii by July 3.

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