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Brazil prepares its first satellite launcher
Brazil's First satellite launcher, the Veiculo Lancador de Satelites, is due for launch from Alcantara at the end of this month, carrying a small science satellite, the SCD 2. The South American country says that it will launch ten new satellites by 2000. The NASA/ Japanese Tropical Rainfall ...
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India uses thrusters to raise IRS 1D
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has raised the perigee of the orbit of the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, IRS 1D, to about 700km, using the spacecraft's thrusters. The satellite was placed in a 300km perigee after the partial failure of the fourth stage of its Polar Satellite ...
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Germans despatch inspector to examine Mir components
A German camera-equipped spacecraft called the Inspektor, has been delivered to the Russian Mir 1 space station aboard the Progress M36 tanker. It will fly, remotely controlled by a cosmonaut inside the Mir, to conduct close inspection of various components using a camera. The 70kg Inspektor, ...
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SST wins contract to support NASA project
The UK's Surrey Satellite Technology (SST) is the only non-US company to have been awarded initial contracts to provide rapidly developed satellite core-systems to support NASA's science programme. In total, seven companies have secured contracts The US firms involved are Ball Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Sciences, Spectrum Astro, ...
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Chek Lap Kok Airport. David...
Chek Lap Kok Airport. David Solloway becomes general manager for India, replacing Richard Snyder, who is to retire. Solloway was formerly divisional manager of marketing and sales for Pacific South, based in Hong Kong. Bruce Kerr, formerly controller for Pacific South, is named divisional manager of marketing and sales for ...
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Signature stays
Signature Flight Support has defeated other bidders to win a 15-year extention to its fixed-base-operation concession at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC . Source: Flight International
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Flap-Drive on SJ30
Sino Swearingen Aircraft has awarded Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems a $2.4 million contract to supply flap-drive systems for the SJ30-2 light business jet. Source: Flight International
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Hughes approved
General Motors (GM) has approved the final terms for the merger of its Hughes Aircraft defence-electronics unit into Raytheon. The share deal is now valued at $10.1 billion, because of a rise in Raytheon's stock price since the merger was announced in January. GM shareholders will have a 30% stake ...
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Weather business sold
United Industrial has sold its AAI Systems Management (SMI) subsidiary to All Weather, a company formed by the SMI management team and investors, for almost $21 million. Source: Flight International
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Aviation Sales buys
Surplus-parts supplier Aviation Sales has agreed to acquire Cincinatti-based engine-component manufacturer Kratz-Wilde Machine for $42.5 million. Source: Flight International
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Innotech acquires
Montreal-based Innotech Aviation is to acquire Pacific Avionics and Instruments of Vancouver, which installs and supports commercial and military avionics. Source: Flight International
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Finnish hornet
Boeing has received $468 million to convert the advanced acquisition contract for 18 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet strike aircraft destined for the Finnish air force to a firm fixed-price contract. It also was awarded $210 million to convert the production contract for four F/A-18Cs and four F/A-18Ds purchased by the Royal ...
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Japanese Missiles
The US Department of Defense has announced the potential sale to Japan of two Mk41 vertical-launch systems, two Mk48 guided-missile VLS, two Mk36 decoy-launching systems and other related equipment worth about $105 million. Japan will use the military hardware to outfit naval warships under construction. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon would ...
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Advanced life
Systems Research Laboratories has been awarded a $49 million US Air Force contract to support the Aircrew Advanced Life Support Equipment Technology Research programme. Source: Flight International
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Pan Am approved
Pan American World Airways shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the company's merger with Carnival Air Lines. In the deal, announced in March, Pan Am will acquire Carnival's fleet of 21 aircraft, including Boeing 727s and 737s. The transaction matches Pan Am's small intercontinental service with Carnival's much larger leisure network. ...
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Video interferance
Passenger use of a video camera on a Japan Air System (JAS)Airbus A300 interfered with the aircraft's navigation aids at a critical point, the flightcrew has reported. The aircraft was on a night instument-landing-system (ILS) approach to Tokyo Haneda Airport on 13 March when the crew, alerted by aberrant ILS ...
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Primac clearance
Primac Air, a small US carrier, has been cleared by the Canadian Transport Agency to fly non-stop cargo and charter flights between Canada and the USA. The flights were made possible by liberalisation of the US/Canada bilateral. Primac Air Courier and Primac Air Charter Service serves New York companies with ...
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Quiet 727's
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has begun deliveries of its Boeing 727 Stage 3 noise-abatement system to Arriva Air. The Seattle-based company plans to certificate an increased-weight version of the kit in 1998. Source: Flight International
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More B-RNAV upgrades
Crossair will retrofit its Saab 340s with Universal Avionics UNS-1L flight-management/global-positioning systems (FMS/-GPS) to meet European basic area-navigation requirements. AOM French Airlines is equipping its Boeing MD-83s with Canadian Marconi CMA-900 FMS/GPSs. Source: Flight International
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Testing Contract
Aerospatiale Aeronautique has signed a contract to supply an ATEC Series 6 automated test system to China Southern Airlines to support Airbus A320 and Boeing 777 avionics maintenance. Source: Flight International