September 22, 1986

September 22, 1986

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Editorial

Rolls-Royce’s Future Options

By DONALD E. FINK

SPACE STATION REDESIGN

NASA Station Design Focuses On Assembly, Early Activation

By Craig Covault,Theresa M. Foley

Space Station Redesign

Agency Names 4-Member Space Flight Safety Panel

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Editorial

Rolls-Royce’s Future Options

Rolls-Royce is poised on the threshold of a new era, and the managers of Britain’s civil and military aircraft engine builder are pursuing two concurrent courses of action that are critical to the company’s future viability. Their major preoccupation involves preparing the company for a return to the private sector, a process that is expected to be completed by next April or May.

By DONALD E. FINK

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SPACE STATION REDESIGN

NASA Station Design Focuses On Assembly, Early Activation

Washington—NASA’s space station managers have recommended a redesigned station that would be launched starting in 1993, with construction focused initially on a medium-length single crossbeam to ease assembly and then early activation of manned modules, speeding science data return.

By Craig Covault,Theresa M. Foley

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Space Station Redesign

Agency Names 4-Member Space Flight Safety Panel

Washington—National Aeronautics and Space Administration has named a four-member Space Flight Safety Panel, headed by astronaut Marine Corps Col. Bryan O’Connor, to oversee all NASA manned space activities affecting flight safety.
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Space Technology

NOAA Weather Satellite Launched on Atlas E

Vandenberg AFB, Calif.—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/RCA NOAA-G weather satellite was launched here last week by an Air Force/General Dynamics Atlas E booster, continuing the space industry’s rebound from a series of failures that started with the Challenger accident.
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Space Technology

Radioactive Space Debris Study Cites Hazards to Satellites, Earth

Washington—The growing number of radioactive satellites and nuclear space debris in orbit, most launched by the Soviet Union, poses a threat to other spacecraft and the purity of Earth’s atmosphere, according to a new analysis. “About 50 radioisotope power supplies, nuclear reactors and fuel cores now in orbit pose both near and far-term hazards,” Nicholas L. Johnson, Teledyne Brown Engineering advisory scientist, said.
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Space Technology

Shuttle Launch Date Concerns Raised

Washington—Numerous middle-level space program managers and engineers have begun to express concern about whether the space shuttle program will be able to achieve its first launch by the first quarter of 1988 after implementing changes forced by the Challenger accident.
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Space Technology

NASA Delays Shuttle Rollout, Adds Tests to Pad Operations

By Edward H. Kolcum

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Space Patent Bill

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Management

Defense Procurement Fraud Unit Pursues Cases of Two Dozen Top-100 Contractors

By James K. Gordon

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Missile Engineering

Patriot Air Defense System Intercepts Lance Surface-to-Surface Missile

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