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GM/Williams team up on microturbine generators
General Motors (GM) and Williams International have teamed up to develop microturbine generators for aerospace applications, primarily unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). The powerplants, which will also be used for distributed power generation, will be produced from a 40kW microturbine generator that was developed for an advanced hybrid electric car, ...
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Arianespace loses contract as CD Radio moves into new orbit
Tim Furniss/PARIS European commercial satellite launcher company Arianespace has lost a contract for two spacecraft but gained another, bringing to 40 the number of satellites on its launch orderbook. Although it has won the contract to launch the Hughes-built HS376 model Brasilsat B4 communications satellite aboard an Ariane ...
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Beal has bigger aims
Beal Aerospace is to develop the BA-2 satellite launcher, dropping the smaller BA-1. The BA-2 will be able to place 5,000kg into geostationary transfer orbit and place satellite constellations into low Earth orbits. The decision follows a market review and the successful testing of Beal's prototype hydrogen peroxide and kerosene ...
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Harris wins satellite prime contract
Space electronics and communications company Harris has won its first opportunity to become a prime contractor for a civilian satellite system. GE American Communications has awarded it a contract to build the first of a planned fleet of Ka-band communications satellites. In the past, Melbourne, Florida-based Harris has primarily ...
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HGS 1 reaches GEO after lunar flybys
Hughes Global Services' HGS 1 communications satellite has completed its unique mission to reach geostationary orbit (GEO), via two lunar fly bys, after being stranded in a useless Earth orbit following a launch failure in December 1997. The spacecraft is now available to customers. The former Asiasat 3, launched ...
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Russia pleads poverty to delay de-orbiting the Mir space station
Russia is continuing to play a cat-and-mouse game with NASA over the International Space Station (ISS) and national Mir space station programmes. Being pressed by NASA to de-orbit the Mir as soon as possible to pave the way for the ISS, Russia is claiming that lack of funds will ...
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RDL Space wins US licence to build first commercial radar satellite
RDL Space of California has won a licence from the US Government to build, launch and operate the first commercial 1m-resolution synthetic-aperture radar satellite, the Radar 1, which will provide images to the military. Other firms, including Space Imaging-Eosat, are preparing to operate high resolution multispectral satellites for the ...
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Airline News
All Nippon Airways is set to launch services from Osaka/Kansai to Xiamen and to Shenyang via Dalian; and from Tokyo to Qingdao, Saga and Yonago, all in July. Air France launched a twice weekly service from Paris/CDG to Shanghai on 11 May. It will become three times weekly from ...
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Taca and AA get go-ahead
Conditions attached to approval for American Airlines' alliance with the Taca Group and for its proposed alliance with British Airways are making celebrations ring hollow. The Department of Transportation finally gave its blessing to the AA-Taca alliance almost two years after the partnership was first proposed. The DOT has ...
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Research and development
Given its precarious geo-strategic position, perched on the edge of the Mediterranean, it is hardly surprising that Israel places a premium on all aspects of intelligence gathering, both within and beyond the atmosphere. Research and development funding is increasingly being focused on providing more capable space-based reconnaissance satellites, with improved ...
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A matter of modernisation
Maj Gen Eitan Ben-Eliahu, Commander of the Israeli air force, sees the "main goal" of his tenure as shepherding through critical modernisation programmes. For Ben-Eliahu, a fast jet pilot by trade, the obvious priority is the fighter fleet, although he adds that the air force's transport and helicopter fleets ...
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Ballistic missile threat
Israel's first harsh experience of a ballistic missile threat was during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when Egypt fired SS-1 Scud short range missiles at Israeli targets. The Scud, in the guise of the Iraqi Al Hussein, also featured prominently in the 1991 Gulf War, with numerous launches against ...
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IAI
IAI With Israel's defence spending staying stable, Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is not relying on domestic largess to achieve its ambitions for growth. Commercial, non-defence, business accounted for 35% of revenues last year, beating the target set in 1993 when IAI began a painful restructuring. That restructuring is ...
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Rafael
As an example of Israel's defence aerospace capability, one would be hard pushed to find a better candidate than Rafael's Python 4 short-range air-to-air missile (AAM). The Python 4 was the first high-off boresight missile fielded by a Western-equipped air force. While NATO countries were outclassed by Russia's Vympel ...
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FAA approves TLS
The Transponder Landing System (TLS) developed by Advanced Navigation & Positioning of Hood River, Oregon, has been certificated by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The TLSallows Category 1 localiser and glidepath signals to be transmitted from an airfield base station to aircraft equipped for instrument landing system use, without the ...
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Civil look for GPS
The US Department of Transportation has awarded Advanced Management Technology of Washington DC a contract potentially worth $62 million over seven years to provide the US Federal Aviation Administration with expertise in adapting the global positioning system (GPS) to civil aviation needs. The company will provide technical engineering services and ...
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OGMA maintains AE3007
OGMA-Aeronautical of Alverca, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, claims to be the first European organisation to receive approval as an authorised maintenance centre for Allison Engines' AE3007, which powers the Embraer RJ-145 family. Source: Flight International
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Thor launch
A Boeing Delta II rocket launched the Hughes-built Thor III communications satellite for Scandinavian company Telenor from Cape Canaveral on 9 June. Only one commercial civilian satellite, Russia's Bonum, remains on the Delta II launch manifest, along with one US Air Force payload and 19 Navstar global positioning system satellites. ...
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Spaceport closes
The Canadian Spaceport in Churchill, Manitoba, has ceased operations after just one sounding rocket launch. Its operator, Akjuit Aerospace, has gone out of business. The company had hoped to launch Start rockets for Russia. Source: Flight International