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Keeping HOPE alive
Japan's HOPE X could be a technology springboard for future RLV programmesAndrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan's efforts to develop future space transportation systems are three pronged. Alongside work to upgrade the nation's expendable launch vehicles and the development of reuseable launcher concepts, the National Space Development Agency (NASDA)and the National Aerospace Laboratory ...
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The 747 factfile
The statistics surrounding the 747 go on forever. Here are a few to mull over: * The world's 747 fleet has flown roughly 32 billion km (2.03 billion nm) - equal to flying to the moon and back 42,000 times. * That same fleet has flown 2.2 billion ...
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MAN develops heat resistant parts for X-38
MAN Technologie is developing high-temperature resistant, ceramics-based, lightweight materials for the NASA X-38 International Space Station emergency return spacecraft. MAN will supply the body flaps and wing leading edges for the X-38, key components in steering the lifting-body craft during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The material is ...
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Boeing's Delta II team's launch record in 1998 of 14 vehicles and delivering 41 spacecraft to orbit, led to the company to win the Space category award. Judges said the team's work "demonstrated outstanding performance in support of US Government and commercial space programmes". The Delta II ...
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Invisible threats from space
THE good news is that astronomers have identified an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. The bad news is that they have lost it. The object, called 1998 OX4, was found last year by a team at the University of Arizona, who tracked it for ...
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Space Station award for Hamilton Sundstrand
Tim Furniss Hamilton Sundstrand has won a $115 million contract from NASA to design, develop and qualify water and oxygen generator assemblies for the International Space Station. It will be one of the "largest development programmes undertaken by the company", which will shortly be renamed Hamilton Sundstrand Space ...
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Launch for space mirror planned in 2001
A space mirror orbiting the Earth that could be seen in the night sky by six billion people as a bright star-like object, as bright as the planet Venus, may be launched in 2001. Called the Star of Tolerance, the mirror is a "solar sail" which uses the ...
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Cosmonauts in bid to save Mir
Russian cosmonauts are battling to keep their country's space programme up in the air by launching a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million to save the Mir space station. Vitaly Sevastyanov and Georgy Titov, veterans of the Soviet space programme, have now asked all Russians to contribute to a ...
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Eurockot wins launch contract from Motorola
The Russian-German Eurockot company has been awarded a contract from Motorola to launch two Iridium mobile communications satellites this December. The launch will be the first by the commercial organisation, which operates converted Russian SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Eurockot also holds contracts for two launches of three E-SAT ...
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Russia confident of service module launch
Tim Furniss The much-delayed launch of the Russian Zvezda service module, which has been holding up the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), will take place in November. The Russian Space Agency (RSA) said at the show that the module has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
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Three Brazilian satellites due to be launched this year
The Brazilian Space Agency says three national satellites will be launched in September and one of the craft will be carried on the country's first satellite launcher. Two satellites, called SACI 1 and CBERS, will be launched by a Chinese Long March 2C booster, while SACI 2 will fly ...
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Russia introduces new generation of rocket boosters
Tim Furniss Russia's Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Centre has introduced a new family of launchers which could compete in the commercial market by 2001. The largest of the five proposed Angara launchers has a maximum performance to low Earth orbit of 28t, with a capability of ...
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Boeing delivers vital space station truss
Tim Furniss Boeing delivered a vital component of the International Space Station (ISS) to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida on Friday. Called the S-Zero Truss, it will form part of what will eventually be the ISS's girder-like framed crossbeam. The S-Zero will be the first starboard truss ...
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Boeing bullish as record year shapes up
Mike Martin "Boeing is back," declared Alan Mulally, president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group yesterday. "We have overcome recent production difficulties and are well on the way to meeting our commitment to deliver a record 620 commercial airplanes by the end of this year. That is more than ...
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Spain joins Argentina for space project
A high resolution remote sensing satellite is being developed by Spain and Argentina. Called Cesar, the satellite will be launched in 2003 and will be able to transmit 5m resolution images of the Earth, the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) says at Le Bourget. INTA, which is ...
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Sea Launch set for first commercial mission
The Boeing-led Sea Launch venture is scheduled to make its first commercial launch in August. The satellite selected for the mission is the Hughes Space and Communications DirecTV 1-R spacecraft. The satellite will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) by the Zenit 3SL booster, launched from the Odyssey ...
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Thiokol links with Russia to sell booster
Thiokol Propulsion, the Cordant Technologies business unit, is featuring a Russian-Ukrainian military missile on its stand in Hall 5. Thiokol is offering the former SS-18 missile, called Denpr, for commercial launches to low Earth orbit (LEO) as part of a marketing link with Kosmotras. This joint stock company ...
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Satellite launch proves a big morale booster
A Delta II booster lifted Boeing's morale on Thursday when a successful launch from Cape Canaveral placed four Globalstar satellites into orbit. It was the first launch since the failed Delta III mission in May. The Delta II is lined up for four more missions in 53 days ...
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Launch failures put pressure on Boeing team to succeed
Boeing's Expendable Launch Systems (ELS) people come to Paris with a mission - to persuade potential commercial satellite customers, governments and space watchers to keep calm. This uncharacteristic message follows a spate of launch failures from US rockets in general, and to Boeing's embarrassment, the Delta III programme in particular. ...
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Americans urged to build bridges within industry
Bill Clinton's personal representative, NASA administrator Dan Goldin, officially opened the USA National Pavilion yesterday with an up-beat keynote speech. He drew on a sporting analogy to describe the way in which the US aerospace industry has coped over the past few years in a landscape characterised by down-sizing and ...