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 ...of 64km/s was controlled
remotely by an astronaut using
proposed cockpit displays and con
trols and software designed for an
actual flight from the ISS.
The International Space Station seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour
Computer software controlling the
parafoil was also tested.
A hybrid synthetic vision system
in a simulated cockpit combined
live pictures from the X-38 and
computer-gene...
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 ...cannot be launched until next year.
A bearing assembly in the CMG
1, which is mounted on the sta
tion's Zl truss, failed on 8 June as
the newly arrived ISS crew was
unloading equipment from the
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS 111
and preparing for a spacewalk the
following day.
The CMGs provide attitude con
trol for the ISS and without them
engineers would have to rely on
thrusters on the ...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Space shuffle
The NASA Space
Shuttle fleet faces
an uncertain 1999
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
JOHN GLENN HAS made it in the nick of time. The STS95/Discwery mission due to launch the 77-year...
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 ...pace 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 waiting. NASA's space shuttle Endeavour/
STS 88 is poised on launch pad 39A at the
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to
embark on the first mission to begin assembly of
the International Space Station (ISS). ...
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 ...lifornia, and the Johnson Space
Center, Texas, as well as at Rohr (the X-33
industry partner in charge of the thermal-
protection system work).
Two panels of Inco-617 and Ti-110 were
flown on the Space Shuttle Endeavour dur
ing the STS77 mission launched on 19
May. It is intendedi that further Shuttle
flights will carry th% metallic panels to test
more stringently their performance in the ...
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 ...ndeavour readies for 'most
challenging' ISS mission yet
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE SPACE SHUTTLE Endeavour has been cleared
for its launch from the Kennedy
Space Center, Florida on 30
November. Endeavour is due to
dock with the International Space
Station (ISS) on 1 December fo...
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ENDEAVOUR PARACHUTE LANDING DEBUT
The Space Shuttle Endeavour ended an epic eight-day 21 h 17m 38s,
STS49 mission on Runway 22 at Edwards AFB on 16 May with the first
Shuttle landing using a drag parachute. The parachute deployed Is aft...
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 ...s time, as it plans an audacious Hubble Space Telescope
servicing-and-repair mission? Tim Furniss reports. T
he recovery, repair and re-
boosting of the Intelsat 6 com
munications satellite by the
Space Shuttle Endeavour astro
nauts in 1992 seemed audacious enough,
but even that pales into routine compared
with what NASA has in store for Decem
ber. The space agency describes the pro
posed ...
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TIM FURNISS/LONDON
Japans third 112 booster will be carrying the nation's pride and, if successful, will raise post-earthquake morale when it is launched from the Tanegashima space ce...
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 ...NEWS ANALYSIS
SHUTTLE'S GREAT ENDEAVOUR
The most ambitious Space Shuttle mission so far, STS Si/Endeavour, is due to be launched
on 1 December, in an attempt to service and repair the Hubble Space ...
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 ...or the module
primary structure and passive
thermal control of the Space
Shuttle programme. A critical
design review was completed in
Turin last month. •
Endeavour starts
final test phase
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was powered up in the Or-
biter Assembly Facility at Rock
well International for the first
time on 6 July.
An eight-month test period
will follow for the fifth shuttle
orb...
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 ...ew delay for Endeavour flight
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
NEW ATTEMPTS to launch Space Shuttle Endeavour
STS99 on the Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission (SRTM)
from the Kennedy Space Center
(KSC) have been further delayed to
at least 11 February because of
launch-related commi...
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 ...e wing,
undercarriage and engines emerges
from the BEA investigation, as
many eventualities as possible will
already have been considered. •
Endeavour embarks on its
toughest ISS challenge
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched from the
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 30 November on the
STS 97 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The Shuttle was scheduled to dock with th...
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 ...HEADLINES
United to lure business jet set
UAL is talking to Dassault about purchasing Falcon jets
EMMA KELLY/LONDON
RAMON LOPEZ/WASHINGTON DC
UNITED AIRLINES' parent UAL is working on ambitious
...
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 ...okol Castor 40 first
stage, made a 705km (440miles)
altitude flight, exposing a 490kg
(1,0801b) suite of instruments to
12.5min of microgravity.
Destiny control system problems are fixed •!
THE SPACE Shuttle Endeavour landed at Edwards
AFB, California, on 1 May after its
11 -day International Space Station
(ISS) mission which included fix
ing software problems on the sta
tion's Destiny ...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
NASA considers retrieving (JARS
UARS was deployed by the Shuttle in 1991
NASA IS considering the launch of a Space Shuttle
to retrieve the Upper Atm
osphere Research Satellite
(UARS)...
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TIM FURNISS / LONDON
Space Shuttle bolts given all-clear
Endeavour readies for crew exchange mission as NASA says orbital manoeuvring system connections not ...
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 ...r than planned when the pro
ject was initiated in 1984, Russia's
Zarya control module will be the
first section launched into space
aboard a Proton booster.
The lift-off will be followed by
the Space Shuttle Endeavour
STS88 on 3 December, carrying
the US Node 1 model, the Unity,
which will be docked to the Zarya.
Russia's Service Module, howev
er, will not be launched to the
Space Stat...
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 ...raft's
success when it reaches the
planet Jupiter in December
1995.
SPACELAB D2 PAYLOAD TRAIN COMPLETE
The payload train of experiment racks for the German-funded Spacelab
D2 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS55 has been
completed at the DASA Space Systems MBB plant at Bremen. The racks
will be shipped to the Kennedy Space Center later this year. The
nine-day Spacelab D2 missi...
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
NEWS IN BRIEF
• SPACEHAB CONTRACT
NASA has awarded Spacehab
a $54 million contract to pre
pare Space Shuttle Spacehab
mid-deck extension laborato
ry modules for its missions to
the...
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