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X-38 prototype makes longest glide flight
The X-38 small-scale prototype of the Crew Rescue Vehicle (CRV) for the International Space Station made its longest glide-flight from the highest altitude to date on 30 March. The craft was dropped from a NASA B-52 at 39,000ft (11,895m) and landed the craft by parachuting to the desert floor near ...
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SESAT to give Eutelsat a gateway to India
The first of Eutelsat's three new Siberia Europe Satellites (SESAT) has been shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite is set to be launched on a Proton DM booster on 17 April. The satellite was built by Russia's NPO-PM company with an 18 Ku-band transponder communications payload ...
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Cosmonauts board Mir as USA raises money concerns
Tim Furniss/LONDON Russian cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kaleri docked with the Mir space station on 6 April after their launch on a Soyuz TM spacecraft from Baikonur on 4 April. It is the first manned mission to the ageing station since it was abandoned in August 1999. ...
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Airod offering
Malaysian maintenance, repair and overhaul company Airod plans an initial public offering (IPO) on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange by the end of September. Some Airod companies may be excluded to make the IPO more attractive, with others floated later. Airod was the first government organisation to be "corporatised", in ...
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Workshop
The Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is negotiating the conversion of four more Boeing 767-200s from passenger to freight configuration for Airborne Express. The first of 11 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s included in the initial contract was delivered to the carrier on 3 April and two additional aircraft ...
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US-UK reach transatlantic deal
Chris Jasper/LONDON Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The USA and UK have agreed a "mini-deal" allowing US Airways to begin London-Pittsburgh services and Virgin Atlantic Airways to retain flights to Chicago. Under the accord, the UK may also select a new US gateway to serve from London Gatwick, or a ...
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Eurocontrol presents Link plan
Emma Kelly/LONDON Eurocontrol will present its council with the master plan and business case for Europe's Link 2000+ programme next month. This is the first stage of an approval process which could pave the way for deployment of operational mobile datalink services for air traffic control (ATC) and airline ...
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Two begin battle to direct Latin American navigation
Guy Norris/SANTIAGO Raytheon and Lockheed Martin's new Synchronetics company have begun what promises to be a fiercely competitive battle to provide Latin America with satellite-based en route navigation and precision approach capabilities (Flight International, 28 March-3 April). Both companies stress the low-cost appeal of the solution to the airlines, ...
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NFTC expansion boosts Hawks
Bombardier's NATO Flight Training in Canada (NFTC) programme will add up to three BAE Systems Hawk 115 advanced and lead-in-fighter trainers (LIFT) to its fleet. The move is designed to keep pace with the increase in student pilot numbers as a result of Singapore joining the scheme and the expected ...
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NASA shake test error damages HESSI satellite
The launch of NASA's High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) set for July has been delayed until at least January next year by a pre-flight test error at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The $65 million HESSI spacecraft was undergoing launch vibration testing on a shake table, but was shaken ...