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After long delays, the International
Space Station is finally just one year
away from its first assembly flight.
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
AFTER A TORTUOUS political and financial gestation period, the International Space Station (ISS) is only one year away from reality. In November
1997, a Russian Proton booster will launch die
first element of the space station, called the
Functional Energy Blo...
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 ... urope's goal of establish
ing a permanently man
ned, autonomous space
station in orbit by 2010, using
elements developed for the
Columbus programme—
Europe's contribution to the US
international Space Station,
Freedom—seems highly ambitious. How
ever, continued concern over the ability of
the US Space Shuttle to provide routine
access to orbit makes such a goal under
standa...
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says, an agreement has been made
to keep the station operational or
in operational readiness until the
end of the year.
Semenov also attempted to allay
fears about Russia's commitment
to the International Space Station,
saying Energia will meet its obliga
tions "in full and exactly on
schedule".
The Zvezda service module for
the International Space Station is
set to be launched in J...
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Shuttle
dependent
The International Space Station is too
dependent on the Space Shuttle, say NASA
and prime contractor Boeing TIM FURNISS/LONDON
FLYING MORE THAN seven Space Shuttle missions a year could jeopardise safe...
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Bold endeavour
Assembly of the International Space Station
is scheduled to begin on 7 December
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
RUSSIA HAS DONE its bit, now its NASAs turn. The Russian Zarya control module is in its planned orbit, ready and w...
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 ...ace. This was clear in the
past, and this is what we are working on for the future. With adaptive wings and rotors as well as the high-
bypass Engine 3E. And likewise with space projects such as the International Space Station, which will
The story of aerospace is
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TIM FURNISS/WASHINGTON DC
THE ALPHA INTERNATIONAL Space Station "...isn't a paper programme any more", says Wilbur Trafton, director of NASA's Space Station programme. "We're
talking launches just round the corner."
The Alpha is all s...
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International Space Station
faces service-module crisis
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station (ISS) Service
Module being built by Russia is
eight months behind schedule,
meaning a d...
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Boeing and Russia's Khrunichev
have signed the $190 million con
tract for die delivery in orbit in
November 1997 of the 2It,
Functional Energy Block (FGB),
the first module of the planned
international space station. The
first US node module will be added
in December 1997, to begin con
struction of die station.
Boeing has also signed an agree
ment wirJi Russia's Energia organi
sa...
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 ...ency will
be decided later
this month.
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE SUBJECT DOMINATING TIIE European Space Agency's (ESA) Council of Ministers meeting in Toulouse, France, on 18-20 October will be the
international space station, code-named Alpha
— the first internationally manned space pro
ject ever undertaken. After two days of political
haggling and argument, the question about
what part die...
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Europe remains a player
It was close, but Europe will
have a place on Alpha, the
international space station.
JULIAN MOXON/TOULOUSE
PERHAPS IT WAS THE fabulously opu lent setting of Toulouse's seventeenth cen tury town hall that stimulated the eleventh- hour release of sufficien...
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The Space Shuttle Columbia
mission to deploy the Ad
vanced X-Ray Astrophysics
Facility has been delayed two
months from January 1999,
to allow more time for pay-
load testing. The delay, and
International Space Station
snags have jolted the NASA
1999 Shuttle schedule.
ishi becomes
Optus C-l prime
MITSUBISHI HAS become the first Japanese company
to win a prime contract to build a
co...
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 ...irst ISS commercial
dealwonbySpacehab
SPACEHAB and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have
signed an agreement which pro
vides the US company with access
to the International Space Station
(ISS).
In exchange for its contribution
to the ISS, Canada is entitled to
space on the ISS to conduct exper
iments. The CSA is letting half of
its allocated space on ...
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 ...unch vehicle (RLV)
to replace the Space Shuttle would
be delayed.
SLI contractors are studying an
orbital spaceplane that could
evolve from a crew rescue vehicle
to be launched unmanned to the
International Space Station (ISS),
into a crew transfer vehicle
launched with crew aboard. It
would initially use an expendable
DEVELOPMENT
UK refines
space policy
The UK is to develop its spac...
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 ...month. The agency is
expected to divert funds from a sec
ond-generation RLV to develop
ment of an orbital spaceplane that
can be launched on an expendable
booster to provide crew rescue for
the International Space Station.
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Fresh construction crew readied
Ten new crew members are sched
uled to fly the International Space
Station (ISS) over the course of this
...
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 ...wo
Soyuz missions, but he has paid
only $20 million, which will sup
port one flight only.
Meanwhile, MirCorp is hoping
to market Citizen Tourist flights to
the Russian Enterprise module of
the International Space Station
(ISS). Enterprise is being devel
oped by Energia - a major share
holder in MirCorp - and the US
company Spacehab. Energia is
proposing to offer the third seat in
a So...
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 ...iscovery was returned to the space centre by Boeing 747
THE SPACE Shuttle orbiter Discovery returned to the
Kennedy Space Center (KSC),
Florida on 3 November, 10 days
after completing the STS 92
International Space Station (ISS)
assembly mission.
The mission ended with a land
ing at Edwards AFB, California, on
24 October, marking the first
Edwards Shuttle landing since
1996. The planned...
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developing a small spacecraft,
the Sloshat-Flevoln, as part of a
study on how propellant sloshing
can affect satellite stability. The
Sloshat-Flevo will be deployed
by the Space Shuttle on an
International Space Station flight
in April 2003.
SPACEFLIGHT
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TIM FURNISS/LONDON
New NASA chief sounds
word of warning over ISS
Project must justify existence on basi...
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