January 28, 1985

January 28, 1985

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Editorial

Joining the Station

MACH 12 FLIGHT

House Committee Explores NASA's Hypersonic Research Proposal

By James K. Gordon

Missile Engineering

USAF Awards Small ICBM Launcher Contracts

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Editorial

Joining the Station

Europe is moving toward a formal join-up with the U. S. space station program at the end of this month when the principal European space players meet in Rome. West Germany is talking about a $900-million program commitment and Great Britain is looking at something on the order of $300 million.
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MACH 12 FLIGHT

House Committee Explores NASA's Hypersonic Research Proposal

Washington—A research program leading to hypersonic flight at speeds through Mach 12 and development of a 300-500-passenger aero/space vehicle is being explored by a House committee on the basis of a recent National Aeronautics and Space Administration report.

By James K. Gordon

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Missile Engineering

USAF Awards Small ICBM Launcher Contracts

Washington—U. S. Air Force Ballistic Missile Office has awarded competitive contracts to two manufacturers for the design, fabrication and testing of prototype hardened mobile launchers for the Air Force's small intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Missile Engineering

Pentagon Considers AMRAAM Cancellation

Washington—Defense Dept. is conducting an intensive review of the Air Force/ Navy/Hughes Aircraft Co. AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) program to determine whether cost, schedule and technical difficulties with the missile justify terminating the program before production begins.

By Robert R. Ropelewski

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Missile Engineering

Sea Harrier Update

London—British Ministry of Defense has issued contracts to British Aerospace and Ferranti to proceed with the mid-life update of the British Aerospace FRS. 1 Sea Harrier. The program will make the carrier-based aircraft capable of carrying the Hughes AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) as well as the AIM-9 Sidewinder it currently carries (AW&ST Sept. 26, 1983, p. 29).
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Space Technology

Army Renewing Space Program Efforts

Colorado Springs, Colo.—The U. S. Army is moving quickly to establish its own space program structure to exploit existing military intelligence and communications satellites and return the service to the high level of space involvement it had 25 years ago.

By Craig Covault

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Space Technology

USAF Studies Spas as Shuttle Aid

Washington—U. S. Air Force is studying use of the German MBB-Erno Spas shuttle pallet satellite as a system that could fly in formation with the shuttle in polar orbit to obtain readings on orbiter characteristics for use in planning military shuttle missions to be launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
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Space Technology

Salyut Cosmonauts Support Military Exercises

Soviet cosmonauts on the Salyut 7 space station have conducted extensive manned military space operations in support of Soviet military ground, sea and air exercises, U. S. intelligence analysts said. No similar real-time man-in-space support has ever been demonstrated from a U. S. spacecraft for U. S. military operations on the ground, sea or air, although some new U. S. manned military space demonstrations are expected in connection with shuttle Mission 51-C's flight that has the primary objective of deploying a National Security Agency signal intelligence satellite.
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Record Low Temperatures Force Shuttle Launch Delay

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Space Technology

NASA Will Impose Secrecy Restrictions On Launches of Antisatellite Targets

Washington—The same new secrecy restrictions applied to Defense shuttle Mission 51-C will be used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and U. S. Air Force for NASA's launch of five LTV Aerospace Scout boosters carrying 10 USAF antisatellite target vehicles from the Wallops Flight Facility, Va., starting this spring.
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