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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches orbit
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft entered orbit around the Red Planet on 11 September, marking the second success for the US space agency after the mission of the Mars Pathfinder and its Sojourner Rover on the planet's surface, starting on 4 July (Flight International, 20-26 August). The Lockheed Martin-built ...
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Prospector delay
The launch of NASA's Lunar Prospector orbiter aboard a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV) 2 has been delayed from 24 September until 23 November, to allow additional time to complete testing on the booster. It will be the LMLV2 maiden flight and the first launch from the Spaceport Florida's commercial ...
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Eurockot aims for 1998 launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) has received $35 million funding from the Dresdener Bank to begin reconfiguring a launch pad and developing support equipment at Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the first commercial launch of the Rockot booster in late 1998, carrying three data-messaging satellites. Dasa and ...
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Seventh SMM is poised for imminent lift-off
NASA's STS86/Atlantis mission is scheduled to be launched on 25 September, to dock with the Russian Mir space station during the seventh Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM). The Atlantis will retrieve NASA astronaut Michael Foale from the Russian space station and leave a new US resident, Dr David Wolf. ...
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nUnited Space
Glynn Lunney has become vice-president for strategic and business planning at Lockheed-Boeing's United Space Alliance, of Houston, Texas. He was formerly vice-president and programme manager, where he is replaced by deputy programme manager Howard DeCastro. Both report to president and chief executive Paul Smith. Source: Flight International
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On the horizon
How the European Space Agency plans more science with less money Tim Furniss/LONDON As the European Space Agency (ESA) prepares to see its penultimate large-scale, high-budget, planetary mission, the Huygens, take off with NASA's Cassini en route for Saturn on about 13 October (Flight International, 7-13 ...
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TNT
Bob O'Donnell has become managing director of airline-management organisation TNT International Aviation Services, of Windsor, Berkshire, UK, a division of TNT Express Worldwide. He was previously managing director of Excalibur Airways and is a former deputy chief accountant at Britannia Airways. Source: Flight International
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BFGoodrich
Stephen Henderson has become vice-president and general manager for the component-services division of BFGoodrich Aerospace Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Group. He was formerly general manager of sales and marketing at GE Engine Services and, before that, was managing director of Aviall Caledonian Engine Services in Scotland, UK. ...
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AAAE/IAAE
Spencer Dickerson, executive vice-president of the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), has been named executive of AAAE affiliate the International Association of Airport Executives (IAAE). Will James, the AAAE's director of accreditation and training, becomes IAAE managing director for Canadian affairs. Source: Flight International
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US Airways
US Airways, of Arlington, Virginia, has appointed Fred Poole vice-president of heavy maintenance, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was formerly general manager of the United Airlines maintenance centre, based at Indianapolis, Indiana. Source: Flight International
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Deutshe BA
Philip Saunders has been appointed head of marketing and sales for British Airways' German subsidiary, Deutsche BA. Saunders has worked for British Airways since 1990, with responsibility for the development and marketing of various BA routes into Central and Eastern Europe, holding the posts of district manager in St Petersburg ...
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AXA Global
Jean Masse has become director of the aviation division of France's Paris-based AXA Group, which specialises in large commercial and international risks. Source: Flight International
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Water-guard support
International Water-Guard Industries, of Vancouver, Canada, has received a letter of intent from Bombardier covering use of its next-generation NPS-A3 on-board water-treatment system on the Global Express business jet. The system, which sterilises water using ultra-violet light, will be available from mid-1998. Source: ...
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Saudi repair deal
Westport, Connecticut-based National Airmotive has won a three-year, $21 million contract to overhaul Royal Saudi Air Force light turbine-engines, mainly Allison 250s and Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6Ts. Source: Flight International
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CSC Australia
Computer Sciences' (CSC) Australian subsidiary has won a A$50 million ($36.5 million) contract to develop and integrate the simulation and mission-planning software for the Australian Navy's Kaman Super SeaSprite helicopters and to produce an operation al flight trainer. Source: Flight International
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Brazil space work
Aerospatiale has been selected by Brazilian space agency research institute INPE to develop the $4 million optical section for the CIMEX observation instrument, due to fly on the Space Shuttle in 1998. Aerospatiale will also develop the optical instrument for the next generation of Sino-Brazilian remote-sensing satellites for INPE. ...