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NASA sets November ISS date
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA has set 20 November as the date for the International Space Station (ISS) project finally to get airborne. Six years later than planned when the project was initiated in 1984, Russia's Zarya control module will be the first section launched into space aboard a Proton booster. ...
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Aerospike test
The first successful powerpack test of the Boeing Rocketdyne division's Linear Aerospike Engine for the Lockheed Martin X-33 sub-orbital technology demonstrator was completed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama, on 1 October. The test calibrated the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel turbopumps and settings. Source: Flight International
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STEX is launched on third Taurus booster
Orbital Sciences launched its third Taurus booster from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 3 October, carrying the $90 million National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Space Technology Experiment (STEX) satellite. The STEX incorporates 29 new technologies, including a 5km-long Advanced Tether Experiment. The Lockheed Martin-built 6,985kg STEX is designed to explore new ...
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Fractional divide
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON There is considerable unease among the US fractional ownership community as it braces itself for the outcome of an 18-month investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, which will determine if this burgeoning market sector should continue to operate under current Federal Airworthiness Regulation, FAR Part 91 general ...
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Mid-sized madness
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Business aircraft development today is a matter of finding and filling market niches. The old class distinctions of light, mid-size and large business jets are gone. In their place is a virtual continuum of corporate jets from entry-level to ultra-long-range. Most of this cross-genre blurring has occurred ...
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Loral contract
Loral Space Systems has won a $300 million contract to build two Ka-band communications satellites for KaStar Satellite Communications of Denver, Colorado. The first launch is planned for no later than February 2002. Source: Flight International
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NASA competition
Lockheed Martin has beaten Boeing in the competition to win from NASA the $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract. The mission communications and data services operations cover five NASA centres - Johnson, Kennedy, Marshall, Goddard and the JetPL - and will be managed by a single industrial contractor for the ...
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Share landmark
Raytheon Aircraft's Travel Air fractional-ownership subsidiary has sold its 100th share, just over one year since beginning operations. The Travel Air fleet now consists of 27 aircraft: seven Raytheon Beech King Air 200s, 13 Beechjet 400As and seven Hawker 800XPs. Source: Flight International
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New GPS
Northstar Technologies has introduced a global positioning system (GPS) trainer to enable Raytheon Beech Bonanza and Baron pilots to practise GPS approaches. The company expects the simulator, which operates with its M3 GPS navigator, to be used by some 750 pilots this year. Source: Flight International
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Galaxy Phasing in
Galaxy Aerospace plans to ease service introduction of its Galaxy business jet next year by having a pilot, maintenance technician and field service representative stay with each new operator for two weeks after delivery, discounting initial spares and performing a free maintenance check after 150h. Source: Flight International
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Finance widened
Cessna Finance is realigning and expanding its domestic and international financing activities for the manufacturer's Caravans, Citations and piston singles, focusing support for sales of the latter to Cessna pilot centres and flight schools. Source: Flight International
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Bell 407 approved
Eurojet Aviation has received UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approval to operate a Bell 407 on the public transport register. The Birmingham, UK-based executive aircraft charter and management company is now operating the single-engined 407 on the Canadian register, pending CAA certification, scheduled for late this year. Source: Flight ...
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Defender delivery
Britten-Norman will deliver a Defender 4000 twin-engined utility aircraft to UK-based Police Aviation Services (PAS) by the middle of the month. This marks the first sale for the Bembridge, Isle of Wight-based manufacturer since it was acquired by investment company Litchfield Continental earlier in the year. The Defender 4000 will ...
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Marshall selection
Bombardier has selected Marshall Aerospace in the UK as its first European independent authorised service centre for the Global Express ultra long-range business jet. Source: Flight International
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BAe Contract
Raytheon Aircraft has awarded British Aerospace long-term contracts, worth over $100 million a year, to produce airframes for the Hawker 800XP business jet. BAe Airbus at Broughton,Wales, will supply fuselages and wings, and BAe Military Aircraft &Aerostructures at Prestwick will supply doors, fuel tanks and flaps. Source: Flight International
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Target contract
The US Air Force has awarded Coleman Research a $165 million contract to develop an air launched target missile, using rocket motors from de-activated Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missiles. Source: Flight International
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Hungarian MIGs
Russia has offered to supply Hungary between five and eight secondhand MiG-29 fighters in exchange for wheat, in a deal expected to be finalised by the end of October. They would bolster the existing Hungarian MiG-29 fleet of nearly 30 aircraft. The barter deal aircraft are relatively new machines from ...
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Herculean task
Lockheed Martin has won a $47 million contract from the US Air Force to modify six USAF Reserve C-130Js to perform weather reconnaissance missions. The latest model Hercules will replace WC-130Es used to monitor hurricanes. The US Department of Defense has ordered 28 C-130Js to date. Source: Flight International