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Proton grounding adds to ISS delay
The International Space Station (ISS) is facing more delays following Russia's decision to keep its Proton booster grounded until at least March, while improvements are made to the second stage powerplant after two failures in four months. The grounding means that the Russian Zvezda service module for the ISS will ...
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Oceanic datalink
Raytheon has demonstrated the operational readiness of the multisector oceanic data link (MS-ODL) installed at the US Federal Aviation Administration's air route traffic control centre in Oakland, California. Similar installations will take place at the New York and Anchorage centres. The MS-ODL allows for digital text message traffic between controllers ...
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Custom P-3s
Lockheed Martin is modifying an additional six ex-US Navy P-3Bs for counter-drug operations with the US Customs Service. Two are being converted to airborne early warning configuration and four to "Slick" interceptors, with nose-mounted radar and multispectral imaging sensor. Each P-3 is equipped with three mission crew consoles. Source: Flight ...
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Minuteman test
TRW has tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with new solid rocket motors produced by Thiokol Propulsion and Pratt & Whitney's Chemical Systems. TRW won the US Air Force's Propulsion Replacement Programme, the ICBM prime integration contract, two years ago. Designed to keep the missile force operational through ...
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Integrated antennas
Lufthansa Technik has developed an antenna mounting system that allows satellite communication and direct broadcast satellite antennas to be integrated in a single installation on the widebody business jets - the Boeing Business Jet and the Airbus Corporate Jet. The new enlarged radome, mounted on the vertical stabiliser fin-top, provides ...
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Gulfstream mods
Jet Aviation has modified the first Gulfstream III with a Rockwell Collins flat screen FDS-2000 flight display, with new 127mm (5in) screens, control unit, cooling fans and glareshields. The aircraft is also the first to be retrofitted with a new all-composite GIV interior. Source: Flight International
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Brazil agreement
Ukraine and Brazil have signed a broad co-operation agreement that may lead to the launch by 2001 of new commercial Tsyklon 4 boosters from Brazil's equatorial Alcantara launch base. The Tsyklon 4 will be an uprated booster with an Italian Fiat Avio upper stage. Source: Flight International
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Static tests
Alliant Aerospace has completed the first of three planned static firings of the GEM 60 graphite epoxy solid rocket motor, which is being developed for the Delta IV. Source: Flight International
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SBIRS team
Aerojet has signed a teaming deal to become a member of the TRW-Raytheon project for the Space Based Infrared System Low (SBIRS Low) project. Aerojet will play a key role in the ground segment, systems engineering and space segment. SBIRS Low is the low-Earth orbiting component of the US Air ...
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Russian fine
Russia will pay Kazakhstan $400,000 in damages following last month's failure of a Proton booster from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Russia paid $270,000 compensation for a similar failure in July. Kazakhstan has banned Proton launches from Baikonur following the latest failure. Source: Flight International
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Routes
Peru back in Miami LanPeru, in which LanChile has a 49% shareholding, has started a daily service between Lima and Miami. Calling Pittsburgh US Airways chairman Stephen Wolf has called for a restoration of Pittsburgh- London services, abandoned by British Airways. The Bermuda II treaty bars the ...
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Alliances take hold in Asia-Pacific
NICHOLAS IONIDES/ATI SINGAPORE Alliance activity is on the rise in Asia-Pacific, with Korean Air (KAL) having won a place in the new global alliance being formed by Delta Air Lines, Air France and Aeromexico. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) is meanwhile edging closer to membership in the so-called Wings alliance based ...
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In Brief
PAL receives finance boost The US Export-Import Bank has dropped its objections to Philippine Airlines' rehabilitation plan, removing the carrier's last major barrier in efforts to emerge from near bankruptcy. The carrier says Eximbank filed a motion with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on 28 October, confirming its ...
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JFK Reconstructs
CAROLE SHIFRIN NEW YORK Billions of dollars are being pumped into New York's once run-down Kennedy airport to make the USA's east coast gateway fit for the 21st century A largely faded symbol of the new world of international aviation, New York's John F Kennedy International Airport is undergoing a ...
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Alaska offers Internet check-in
JANE LEVERE NEW YORK Alaska Airlines, a pioneer in the use of electronic tickets, is using the Internet to revolutionise its check-in process. The carrier has developed a new on-line check-in system for travellers who purchase electronic tickets for domestic travel from its web site; it now sells only paperless ...
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Venezuela's Aserca moves togain access to USA
Venezuela's Aserca Airlines is looking to its Caribbean subsidiary to expand a US presence otherwise frozen for Venezuelan airlines. Air Aruba, which is 70% owned by Aserca, is expanding its Aruba hub with three more McDonnell Douglas DC-9s, more flights to Caracas, and listings in more computer reservation systems. ...
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VASP merger proposal rejected
BRIAN HOMEWOOD RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian aviation is again in confusion over mergers, with VASP proposing a single holding company for the four main companies and the government's development bank repeating an offer to finance fusion. For the second time this year, Andrea Calabia, president of The Brazilian National Development ...
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Routes
Aer Lingus quits Stansted In a re-evaluation of its London strategy, Aer Lingus has added services from Dublin to London City and London Gatwick airports, while ceasing its services to London Stansted. The London City service in particular, says Group CEO Garry Cullen, represents a "key opportunity" for Aer ...
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Return to School
KAREN WALKER WASHINGTON DC Competition is heating up to provide MBA programmes for airline middle managers on the fast track. Such programmes are helping to breed a new generation of business-savvy executives. Why is it that airlines are looking outside of the industry to appoint senior executives? Academics believe it ...