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Delta III design challenge 'underestimated'
Boeing "underestimated the design challenge" of developing the Delta III, says an independent review, following the failure of the new launch vehicle on its first two flights in August last year and last May. An independent mission assurance review team, led by former USAir Force Secretary Sheila Widnall, has ...
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Final Mir, first ISS crews are named
Two Russian cosmonaut crews have been named for the final mission to the Mir space station to be launched in February 2000. The prime crew is rookie Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri, a Mir veteran. A two-person back-up crew has been named as Salizham Sharipov - who flew on ...
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Hardware losses top $2 billion
Tim Furniss/LONDON The $300 million-plus failure of Japan's H2 booster and a communications satellite on 15 November has brought to $2 billion the total value of space hardware lost this year. There have been six launch failures and five in-orbit satellite failures, plus satellite in-orbit anomalies. Despite the ...
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Matra Marconi wins Helios deal
Matra Marconi Space (MMS) has been selected by the French Defence Agency as prime contractor to supply the ground segment for the Helios II reconnaissance satellite. It is to enter service in 2003 to process data from Helios IB and Helios IIA and B satellites and possibly future military spacecraft. ...
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Another Hubble gyroscope fails as repair mission is prepared
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was placed in a safe mode on 13 November after its gyroscope No 1 stopped operating, leaving just two operational units. Observations have been suspended. The situation, which had been anticipated, adds extra drama to the forthcoming STS103 Discovery mission to conduct the third service ...
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Mars upgrades
Mars upgrades The European Space Agency will upgrade two of the instruments that will fly on the Mars Express orbiter in 2003, to help make up for some of the science activities lost by the recent failure of the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter. An infrared channel will be added to ...
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Israel puts Turkey in Offeq picture
Turkey is evaluating the purchase of an Israeli-developed Offeq-type intelligence satellite. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv may supply Turkey with images from its Offeq 3 satellite already in orbit if the purchase agreement is concluded. The issue was discussed during a recent visit of Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak to Turkey. ...
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Spy for hire
IAI's EROS satellite will help Israel to catch up in the space market Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV Time sharing is usually associated with hotel rooms in exotic resorts. From early next year, the concept will also be linked with observation satellites for civil and military missions. The first Earth remote ...
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Catching African bugs
Age is beautiful for many African airports, which have avoided the biggest problems in becoming Y2K compliant Michael Wakabi/KAMPALA Africa is never short of contradictions. In the run-up to the year 2000, the very things that made some African airports the laughing stock of yesteryear are the reason that ...
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NTSB urges BK117 airworthiness bulletin
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called on the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an airworthiness directive mandating a two-year-old service bulletin issued for the Eurocopter BK 117. The NTSB believes the service bulletin, issued in 1997 recommending the installation of a hook-type latch, would prevent access ...
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CarinaStar to take more Beeches
CarinaStar Shares, a fledgling fractional-ownership company dealing in top-of-the-range piston aircraft, plans to take its second pair of new Raytheon Beechcrafts in December. Operations at the Hilton Head Island, South Carolina-based company started earlier this year with a Beech Baron B-58. Six months later a Jaguar Edition A36 Bonanza ...
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Bombardier cuts metal for first Continental airframe
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Bombardier has cut the first metal for its super-midsize Continental twin-engined jet, passing the first production milestone in the development of its all-new business jet "ahead of schedule". The event, marked by the machining of an "uplock fitting for the nose landing gear", also finalised the completion of ...
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Extra earns approval
Extra Flugzeugbau was planning to receive instrument flight rules (IFR) certification for its Extra 400 touring aircraft on 20 November from the German civil aviation authority, the LBA. The German manufacturer, which began production of its DM1.4 million ($745,000), six-seat piston single late last year from its Huenxe, Düsseldorf ...
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Jet buys Gulfstreams for charter
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Jet Aviation has invested $100 million in a fleet of business jets for a dedicated charter operation, aiming to bridge the gap between charter management and fractional ownership. The aviation services company has placed five refurbished Gulfstreams into service in the USA - two GIIs ...
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Swedes to follow merger recipe
Chris Jasper/LONDON Swedish companies Saab and Celsius are to merge, creating a major Nordic player that will rank as one Europe's leading aerospace and defence manufacturers. The deal will see military aircraft and civil aerostructures specialist Saab buy Celsius for SKr5 billion ($600 million) cash, and seems to have been ...
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Delta success
Boeing has won a contract from Loral Space and Communications for up to 30 commercial satellite launches using the new Delta IV fleet. Loral has confirmed that Boeing has won the contract, but has not specified the number of launches that will be involved. The Delta IV, in development, has ...
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Airod eyes Mi-17 work
Malaysian aircraft maintenance and modification company Airod plans to import Russian aircraft manufacturing technology. The move could lead to the manufacture in Malaysia of Mil Mi-17 helicopters, as well as the later development of indigenous aircraft types, says Airod. Talks on the subject took place during recent visits to ...
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UAE closes on Alpha Jet purchase
The German Government is close to a deal to sell 32 reconditioned Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet air force training requirements. Although talks are at an advanced stage, progress is believed to have slowed recently in the face of opposition from Germany's Green ...
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African Connexion gives Ayres first sale
Ayres has made its first sale of the Ayres 7000,formerly the Czech-built Let L-610, with an order for two from Burundi, Africa-based regional City Connexion. The $17 million deal was signed at the show by Airline Partners, based in Lugano, Switzerland, which is the exclusive worldwide agent for the Ayres ...
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Boeing hints at new models
Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) is considering following up its launch of the BBJ and BBJ2 derivatives of the Next Generation 737 with new models. Steven Hill, Boeing's vice-president customer services, says other models should follow the first two product launches as the market requires. While not elaborating on what BBJ ...