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Inmarsat approval
Canadian Marconi has received Inmarsat approval for its CMA-2200 top-mounted Aero-I satellite-communications antenna, and installations are under way on Boeing 737-800s. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon trims its missile expenses
Raytheon's recently acquired Texas Instruments (TI) defence division is to join forces with the group's existing Electronic Systems unit to work on the latest phase of a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to cut the cost of producing missiles. TI and Raytheon had completed the earlier ...
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Honeywell is close to gaining DGPS system certification
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Honeywell has carried out a flight inspection of its SLS-2000 satellite landing system (SLS) and expects to gain approval for initial Special Category I (SCAT I) operations by January 1998. Flight inspection will take place at Newark, using a Honeywell-owned Cessna Citation V business jet. The ...
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Dasa wins satellite contract
Daimler-Benz Aerospace's (Dasa) Dornier division in Munich has won an $18 million contract from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build two Dasa Flexbus spacecraft platforms for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission. The 380kg satellites will be launched aboard a Russian Cosmos booster from Plesetsk in 2001 and placed ...
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ISS completion may slip back
Tim Furniss/LONDON Completion of the International Space Station (ISS) is likely to be delayed until 2004 - ten years later than planned when the project was first announced in 1984 and about one year later than the date announced by NASA in 1996. Earlier this month, NASA and ...
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Toshiba Investment
Japan's Toshiba, which will supply the solar panels for the Space Systems-Loral-built CD Radio digital audio broadcasting satellites to be launched in 1999 under a ´2 billion ($16 million) contract, is to invest over ´1 billion by 2000 in a new solar-array manufacturing plant in Kawasaki. The company has supplied ...
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JV venture will market SS-18 satellite launchers
Kosmotras, a joint venture between ten Ukrainian and Russian companies, has been set up to market the former Dnepr SS-18 ballistic missile for commercial launches into low Earth orbit. The firms, led by the Russian and Ukrainian space agencies, plan to convert 150 SS-18s into the Dnepr booster and ...
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Rohr joins 7Q7
Rohr, the San Diego-based engine-nacelle specialist, has formally joined the Omega-led "Seven Q Seven" programme which is being established to re-engine Boeing 707s with Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217 turbofans. Delivery of flight-test hardware will begin in August 1998. Source: Flight International
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Spares for Seoul
The Pentagon plans to provide South Korea with $160 million-worth of spare parts for military aircraft and tactical missiles provided in the past by the Seoul Government. The aircraft include the McDonnell Douglas F-4 and Northrop F-5. The deal also includes AIM-7 and AIM-9 air-to-air missile components. Source: ...
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Howmet Shares sale
The Carlyle Group plans to offer 15% of its holding in US engine-castings giant Howmet for sale to the public. Carlyle, an aerospace/defence-acquisition company, took 51% of Howmet two years ago in a joint buy-out with Thiokol, which holds 49%. A further 13% of Carlyle's stock will be sold to ...
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Kaman sells Sciences
Kaman Corporation has agreed to sell Kaman Sciences, its defence-related sciences unit, to ITT Industries for $135 million in cash, with the deal expected to be finalised by the end of the year. Helicopter group Kaman put the sciences subsidiary up for sale in July. Based in Colorado Springs, Kaman ...
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China Eastern listed
China Eastern Airlines has completed a domestic share listing on China's Shanghai exchange, raising 661.5 million yuan ($80 million). The carrier sold 270 million A-shares on the bourse and issued a further 30 million to staff, representing 6.16% of its stock. Earlier in the year, the carrier sold 32% of ...
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KC's APU order
KC Aviation, the Dallas-based corporate-aircraft completion centre, has ordered ten PATS Gulfstream II auxiliary power-units (APUs) for installation in aircraft during 1998. The new kit replaces the original, and now out-of-production, GTCP 36-6 with a unit based on the AlliedSignal GTCP-36-100 engine. Source: Flight International
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Galaxy testing
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has begun ground-testing the Galaxy Business Jet at the company's Tel Aviv site, and plans to begin engine runs early in December. Galaxy Aerospace, the IAI/Pritzker joint venture, says: "The first flight before the end of the year remains an ambitious target but an achievable one." ...
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White Plains delivery
White Plains, New York-based Wayfarer Aviation has become the largest US provider of Bombardier Canadair Challenger business-jet charters, with the addition of a fifth aircraft - a 601-3R - to its managed fleet. A Challenger 604 will be added in December. Source: Flight International
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Cessna success
Arabian Support and Services has become the second Saudi Arabian customer for the Citation X, following the signing of a contract at the show. To date, the two Saudi aircraft are the only orders for the high-speed Citation X in the region, although marketing vice-president, Philip Michels, expects to sell ...
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Jordanian overhaul
Messier-Bugatti is to undertake the general overhaul of landing gear on six Airbus A310-300s and three A320s operated by Royal Jordanian Airlines. Work starts this month and the contract continues until 2004. Source: Flight International
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NEAP Opportunity
SpaceDev, the private Colorado-based space development company, has offered the international space community opportunities to fly seven experiments aboard its Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) at a cost of about $10-15 million each. The NEAPis to be launched in 1999/2000 to land on an asteroid, staking a claim to property ...
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Probe test
Two miniature 2kg science probes designed to penetrate the Martian surface after flying piggyback on the Mars Surveyor 98 Lander mission, in December 1999, have been tested successfully. Test articles of the probes - containing a drill and batteries, which will fly the second New Millennium programme mission to test ...
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Avcorp Robotics deal
Canada's Avcorp Industries has signed a deal with Dassault's CRTI Robotique to develop and market the French automation unit's anthropometric assembly robots. In April 1998, Avcorp will install a robotic cell to automate the assembly of the fin and horizontal stabiliser of the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet(CRJ) Series 700, allowing ...