December 3, 1984

December 3, 1984

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Editorial

Policy for Commercialization

Washington ■■■■■■ Roundup

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SOVIET SHUTTLE ADVANCES

USSR's Reusable Orbiter Nears Approach, Landing Tests

By Craig Covault

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Editorial

Policy for Commercialization

NASA's just-issued policy for space commercialization is a model of clarity and foresightedness in the annals of government documentation. As such, it is a workable blueprint for putting more private entrepreneurs into space in a technology that has been dominated, by necessity, with government funding and thus government decision making.
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Turkish Air Defense Turkish Defense Minister Zeki Yavuzturk has asked his West German counterpart, Manfred Woerner, to intercede personally with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger to transfer 27 Army National Guard Hughes/Boeing Roland air defense units to Turkey to meet its air defense needs.
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SOVIET SHUTTLE ADVANCES

USSR's Reusable Orbiter Nears Approach, Landing Tests

Washington—The Soviet space shuttle program is about to enter a new phase with initiation of shuttle approach and landing tests in which the manned Soviet orbiter will be separated from the back of its carrier aircraft as the U. S. orbiter Enterprise was separated from the NASA/ Boeing 747 at Edwards AFB, Calif., in 1977.

By Craig Covault

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Space Technology

French Seek Inclusion of Hermes Shuttle in ESA's Space Program

Paris—France will try to add its proposed Hermes small manned space shuttle to a multibillion-dollar European long-term program package that foresees development of components for the U. S. space station and production of the Ariane 5 heavy-lift satellite launcher.

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz

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Garn, Teacher Orbiter Flights Expected in Next Realignment

Washington—National Aeronautics and Space Administration decision on which space shuttle missions will fly U. S. Sen. Jake Garn (R.-Utah) and a teacher will be made following a realignment of the shuttle program schedule caused by orbiter Challenger tile problems (AW&ST Nov. 12, p. 22).
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Satellite Pricing

Paris—Second government-level meeting on pricing policies for U. S. and European satellite launchers will be held in Washington Dec. 17-18. The session follows the initial pricing meeting conducted in Paris Nov. 12-13 which brought together representatives from the European Space Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the office of the U. S. Trade Representative, the Dept. of Transportation, France's CNES space agency and officials from France, West Germany and Switzerland (AW&ST Oct. 22, p. 24).
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Aeronautical Engineering

Navy Plans to Buy 15 Boeing E-6As For Strategic Communications Mission

Washington—U. S. Navy plans to procure up to 15 Boeing E-6As for its Tacamo airborne strategic communication mission after receiving preliminary approval from the Defense Dept. and responding to congressional questions on the funding and alternatives to the over $2-billion program.
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Avionics

Supercomputer Center Destined for Maryland

Washington—Supercomputer Research Center, which is to develop very high speed supercomputer architectures and software using parallel processing techniques primarily for defense applications, will be established at the Maryland Science and Technology Center, midway between Washington and Annapolis.
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Garn, Teacher Orbiter Flights Expected in Next Realignment

Europe, U. S. Near Agreement on Station Studies

Paris—Agreement is expected before year's end on a memorandum of understanding containing guidelines for Europe's participation in Phase B studies on the U. S. space station. Discussion of a third draft of the memorandum have begun among European Space Agency member nations, and final approval of the document is anticipated before the end of December.
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Aeronautical Engineering

NASA Seeks Design for Supersonic Oblique Wing Testbed

Los Angeles—A request for proposal for the preliminary design of a supersonic oblique wing research aircraft has been issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Calif. The program is aimed at flying NASA's F-8 digital fly-by-wire research aircraft with an oblique wing configuration to extend NASA's flight research beyond the subsonic AD-1 research aircraft into supersonic cruise conditions for military and civilian applications.
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