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Star move may spell the end of LIAT
Caribbean Star Airlines is to launch an extensive West Indies network with five Bombardier Dash 8 turboprops. Many predict the move could spell the end of its rival, LIAT. The privately owned airline is backed by Texan businessman Allen Stanford and headed by Gilles Filiatreault, previously chief executive of ...
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Gulf Air celebrates
Gulf Air has unveiled a dramatic special edition colour scheme on one of its Boeing 767-300ERs to mark its 50th anniversary. The Bahrain-based airline will apply special schemes designed by Tunisian artist Nja Mahdoui, to one example of each type in its fleet, which includes 767s, and Airbus A320s, A330-200s, ...
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X-38 prototype makes longest glide flight
The X-38 small-scale prototype of the Crew Rescue Vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station made its longest glide-flight from the highest altitude to date on 30 March. The craft was dropped from a NASA B-52 at 39,000ft (11,895m) and landed the craft by parachuting to the desert floor near ...
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SESAT to give Eutelsat a gateway to India
The first of Eutelsat's three new Siberia Europe Satellites (SESAT) has been shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite is set to be launched on a Proton DM booster on 17 April. The satellite was built by Russia's NPO-PM company with an 18 Ku-band transponder communications payload ...
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Software fault caused Sea Launch failure
Sea Launch believes there is "strong evidence" suggesting that the failure of its third launch vehicle, resulting in the loss of the first ICO Global Communications satellite on 12 March, was due to a ground software logic error. The error seems to have resulted in the failure to command ...