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Hot Passage
The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft passed within 200 million kilometres of the Sun on 12 March. This is the closest it will fly to the Sun during its flights over the south and north poles. The previous closest approach was 43.5 million kilometres, by the US/German probe, the Helios ...
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Indian Centre
A regional space centre for countries in the Asia-Pacific region is to be established in India. The science and technology sub-committee of the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space plans to implement programmes for the development of space co-operation within the Pacific Rim. Source: ...
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Israeli Satellite
Israel's $3.5 million, 52kg technology satellite, the Gurwin 1, will be carried piggyback with two Russian satellites on a Start 1 booster from Plesetsk on 28 March. Source: Flight International
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Sporty Land In Germany
US general-aviation-equipment mail-order specialist Sporty's Pilot Shop has opened its first overseas office in Wiesbaden, Germany, 20min from Frankfurt International Airport. Sporty's Pilot Shop - Europa will handle on-site retail and mail order catalogue sales. Source: Flight International
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Celsius Tech Order
Celsius Tech has won a SKr140m ($17million) order to supply the Swedish air force with a speech and data radio-communication system for the JAS 39 Gripen. The company has been the main supplier of radio communication systems to the air force since the 1940s. Source: Flight ...
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Tower WXR-700X
Tower Air is to upgrade its Boeing 747-100/200s with Rockwell-Collins' WXR-700X forward-looking wind-shear radar, becoming the sixth airline - and first retrofit customer - to buy the system, which is to be certificated in May. Source: Flight International
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Crack Finder Delivery
Emerson Electric subsidiary Krautkramer Branson is ready to deliver its first Crack Finder, a hand-held instrument for rapid scanning of metal surfaces to detect surface-breaking cracks. Source: Flight International
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DASA
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) has announced new upper-management appointments to coincide with the succession of Dr Manfred Bischoff to the presidency on 24 May. Dr Andreas Sperl is to become executive vice-president, taking responsibility for the newly created trust movement, co-operation, joint ventures and marketing department. Sperl has been general director ...
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Gulfstream
Vice-chairman Tom Bell, of manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace of Savannah, Georgia, is to return to Burson-Marsteller as president and chief executive. He keeps his place on the Gulfstream board. Bill Boisture, executive vice-president, will take on Bell's operational responsibilities from 1 April. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier
John Lawson has been named president of the Bombardier Business Aircraft division, of Montreal, Canada. He succeeds Bryan Moss, who has become vice-chairman and a director of Gulfstream Aerospace, of Savannah, Georgia. He also becomes chief executive of new subsidiary Gulfstream Aircraft. Lawson was previously vice-president for marketing and international ...
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Lockheed
Albert Smith has been appointed president of Lockheed Missiles & Space space-systems division. Minoru Sam Araki, now executive vice-president of Lockheed Missiles & Space Systems Group (LMSSG), is named president of Lockheed Missiles & Space. Dain Hancock, now vice-president for F-16 programmes, becomes president of Lockheed Fort Worth. John McLellan, ...
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Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department has named Albert Lam Kwong-yu airport general manager at Kai Tak International Airport. He was most recently chief operations officer and has acted in the posts of assistant director (safety regulations) and air-traffic general manager. Source: Flight International
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ALENIA/ASTA TEAM
Alenia and Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA) are to team to offer the Italian company's G.222 for the Australian Defence Force's light-tactical-aircraft requirement to replace its de Havilland DH-6 Caribous. Alenia and Aerospace Technologies of Australia (ASTA) are to team to offer the Italian company's G.222 for the ...
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IAI OFFEQ 3 LAUNCH DUE
The Israeli Offeq 3 intelligence satellite, scheduled to be launched soon, will allow the country's defence ministry to assess the capability of such a satellite to fit into an early-warning system aimed at locating surface-to-surface missile launches. The Offeq 3 has been built by Israel aircraft industries and will be ...
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An issue of stability
The RAAF's new Chief of Air Staff discusses future staff and equipment needs. Douglas Barrie/CANBERRA Instability is a concern for the recently appointed Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Les Fisher. His concern is with his personnel, however, not regional politics. ...
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ASIST monitors space parts from the ground
THE GODDARD Space Flight Center in the USA has developed a new ground-based system, incorporating a new dynamic data visualisation tool called Sammi, to provide remote monitoring and control of spacecraft components in flight. The Advanced Spacecraft Integration and System Test (ASIST) has been designed to display and ...
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On show in Australia
Paul Phelan/cairns Australia's Air Shows Down Under, which runs from 21-26 March, has attracted large numbers of domestic and overseas exhibitors The organisers of Air Shows Down Under, being staged at Asta Avalon Airport outside Melbourne, Victoria, on 21-26 March, will again try to balance the demands of ...
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Nothing to be afraid of
US authorities worry about accepting Robinson Helicopter. Australian cowboys show that training is the key to safe use. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) latest move to beef up flight-training requirements for the Robinson Helicopter R22 and R44 follows a year of ...
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Transaero plans more routes inside Europe
INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN airline Transaero plans to begin scheduled services to Frankfurt and Berlin from 26 March. It already serves Tel Aviv and Eilat, and serves London in conjunction with Riga Airlines Express of Latvia. In June, it is due to start serving Faro and Malaga. In ...
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C-17 military transport is back on track, says MDC
McDONNELL DOUGLAS "...has dug itself out of a sizeable hole" and is now moving forward with the C-17 military-transport programme, says Donald Kozlowski, the firm's senior vice-president for the project. Kozlowski admits, however, that the once-troubled C-17 project must still overcome hurdles before the US Department of ...