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NASA delays 'risky' HETE launch
Tim Furniss/LONDON The launch of the NASA High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) aboard a Pegasus booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, was cancelled in late January as the space agency considered it too risky. NASA wants more testing of the satellite and further preparations at ground stations before it goes ...
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Thruster contracts for Kaiser Marquardt
Kaiser Marquardt is to provide 110lb-thrust (490N) bipropellant engines for the attitude control system of the International Space Station (ISS) and 200lb-thrust engines for the ISS Propulsion Module. The contract has come from Boeing Reusable Systems. The Propulsion Module will share long-term attitude control and re-boost work with the ...
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Atlas blast-off kick starts new millennium space programme
The first satellite launch of the new millennium was routine, with an International Launch Services (ILS) Atlas IIA lifting off from Cape Canaveral on 21 January, carrying the US Air Force DSCS III B8 satellite. It was followed on 24 January by PanAmSat's Galaxy XR, a high- power Hughes ...
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Eutelsat orders fresh NewBird
Eutelsat has ordered a new communications satellite, provisionally called NewBird, from Alcatel Space. The craft will be equipped with 26 Ku-band transponders switchable to three areas of coverage - a wide beam over Europe, a beam covering North and South America, and a steerable beam. The satellite will be ...
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Spacehab contract
Spacehab has won a $4.2 million contract from NASA to supply an integrated cargo carrier (ICC) and two Spacehab Oceaneering Space Systems Boxes - unpressurised tool boxes - for next year's Space Shuttle International Space Station (ISS) assembly flight 7A.1. It will be the first flight of an ICC without ...
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Mergers
BAE Systems is to acquire Watkins-Johnson Telecommunications, a US specialist in military communications surveillance. The Gaithersburg, Maryland-based group will become part of BAE Systems North America's Aerospace Electronics division. A $16.5 million plan by Far East Ventures to buy privately owned Renown Air, including carriers Renown Aviation and Air Niagara ...
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people ++ Evergreen International Aviation has named Joseph O'Gorman president and chief executive (CEO). He joins after retiring as CEO of Reno Air upon its sale to American Airlines. Timothy Wahlberg becomes chairman of Evergreen, the activities of which include helicopter charters, a cargo airline and aircraft leases. He succeeds ...
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Comment3 Headlines USA reconsiders JSF policy4 Dragonair plans 26-aircraft order Dash 8-Q400 delays lengthen5 Lockheed Martin eyes job cuts A400M engine rivals in joint talks 6 MDH to take over former owner's site Air Transport Bombardier picks regional engines8 Crew drills highlighted at Little Rock hearing BM starts CityLine services9 ...
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Seoul issues KAL maintenance directive
The South Korean Government has issued a directive ordering Korean Air (KAL) to enhance maintenance at airports outside South Korea. The order follows the 22 December crash of a Boeing 747-200F freighter at London Stansted Airport in the UK. A faulty attitude director indicator is believed to have contributed to ...
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Legend battles for February launch
Embattled Legend Airlines plans to initiate services from Dallas Love Field, Texas, late this month if it overcomes legal challenges from American Airlines, the city of Fort Worth and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Legend, which planned to begin interstate business-class operations last September, using six 56-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s, ...
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BAE plans to merge Asset Management and Avro
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON BAE Systems is restructuring its regional airliner businesses into a single unit by folding the Asset Management (AM) remarketing arm - a standalone division - into BAE Systems Regional Aircraft, via a merger with the latter's own Toulouse-based Avro marketing and support operation. Avro is part of Woodford, ...
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JAL videos
Japan Airlines (JAL) has started to take delivery of the first of its new Boeing 747-400s which have been fitted with Sextant In-Flight Systems' second-generation video-on-demand entertainment servers on the Boeing production line. The airline is to receive five 747-400s with the latest version of the m Series in-flight entertainment ...
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Boeing targets 'out of box' 207min ETOPS for 777X
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is to certificate its proposed ultra-long range 777X variants for 207min extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) for "out of the box" entry into service in September 2003. The radical move comes as the US Federal Aviation Administration gives its long-delayed green light to 207min ETOPS for current ...
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Dasa to launch A300-600 cargo conversion challenge
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) Airbus is to launch an A300-600 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme, once again pitching it in direct competition for cargo work with fellow Airbus Industrie partner BAE Systems Aviation Services. The German company will formally announce its plans to expand into the A300-600 market next month, say ...
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Reasons to be fearful
The downward trend of fatality numbers continues, but worries remain over differences in regional safety standards David Learmount/LONDON All is not well with airline safety. Despite fewer fatalities in 1999, accident numbers equalled those in 1998, and some significant international airlines - most notably a few key carriers in the ...
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R-R looks to Spain for low-pressure work
Chris Jasper/LONDON Rolls-Royce and its part-owned Spanish subsidiary Industria de Turbo Propulsores (ITP) are discussing the transfer of low-pressure turbine manufacturing and assembly for the Trent 500 programme to Spain. ITP could take over design and manufacture of all R-R low pressure blades. R-R confirms that ITP and South ...
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Mergers
US motion control systems specialist Parker Hannifin is to buy Commercial Intertech for $366 million in cash and stock, plus the assumption of $107 million of debt. Both companies are based in Ohio. Parker has made 42 acquisitions in the last six years. The takeover of Helicopter Services of the ...
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Promising future
The 1990s were years of unprecedentedly intense activity aimed at improving airline safety. So what happened? There were more fatal accidents and more human casualties in that decade than in the 1980s. Despite active flight safety campaigns by major international agencies, more modern aircraft and air traffic control systems, ...
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Preparing for safety
The 1990s was a decade of preparing for better airline safety rather than delivering David Learmount/LONDON The number of airline accidents worldwide increased by 28% in the 1990s compared with the 1980s, and fatalities rose by 12.5%. A total of 11,950 people died in 480 accidents during the ...
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Workshop
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has won approval for Airbus A320 and A321 maintenance up to C3 check level and Boeing MD-11 line maintenance from the European Joint Aviation Authorities. The approval is reflected in revised JAR-145 certification, which the Sino-US joint venture has received, having been certificated to this ...