March 26, 1990

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EVA Requirement Dispute Threatens To Disrupt Space Station Program

WASHINGTON A dispute within NASA about how much maintenance the space station would require has moved extravehicular activities to the forefront of station design issues and raised the specter of yet another program disruption. While preliminary findings from an internal study suggest astronauts would have to don space suits every other day to repair or service hardware outside, top NASA officials said the estimate is a “worst-case scenario” and based on unrealistic assumptions.

By JAMES R. ASKER

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Soviets Claim Reconnaissance Satellite Launched by Atlantis Has Failed

WASHINGTON Apparent failure of the $500-million AFP-731 imaging reconnaissance satellite launched by the space shuttle Atlantis Feb. 28 is a serious setback in the U. S. strategic intelligence program. The new Central Intelligence Agency/U.S. Air Force spacecraft had been under design and fabrication for years as a follow-on to the KH-11 vehicles used since the mid-1970s, and the Defense Dept, paid NASA about $70 million for its launch.

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ESA Retargeting Giotto Spacecraft For Grigg-Skjellerup Comet Flyby

The European Space Agency has completed the second in a series of maneuvers to retarget its Giotto spacecraft for a new cometary encounter in two years. If Giotto successfully completes the flyby of the Grigg-Skjellerup comet on July 10, 1992, it would mark an unprecedented second cometary encounter for the probe, which was designed for the onetime close pass of Halley’s Comet, which was successfully accomplished in 1986.

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

Hubble Telescope Deployment Set for Record Shuttle Altitude

HOUSTON The space shuttle is slated to fly to a record 330 naut. mi. altitude to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, an orbit high enough to safely operate the $2-billion observatory until it is reboosted about 1995. The shuttle Mission 31 astronauts who are to deploy Hubble from the orbiter Discovery will provide the 13-ton observatory with more backup emergency repair capability than any previous shuttle payload.

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EVA Requirement Dispute Threatens To Disrupt Space Station Program

By JAMES R. ASKER

NASA, Intelsat Discuss Shuttle Rescue Of Satellite Stranded in Useless Orbit

By CRAIG COVAULT

NASA Begins Operating Testbed to Assess Semi-Autonomous Navigation Techniques

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

EVA Requirement Dispute Threatens To Disrupt Space Station Program

By JAMES R. ASKER

NASA, Intelsat Discuss Shuttle Rescue Of Satellite Stranded in Useless Orbit

By CRAIG COVAULT

NASA Begins Operating Testbed to Assess Semi-Autonomous Navigation Techniques

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

Soviets Claim Reconnaissance Satellite Launched by Atlantis Has Failed

Single Atlas to Launch Three Small Satellites

Subcommittee Says NASA Likely To Face $1 -Billion Budget Cut

ESA Retargeting Giotto Spacecraft For Grigg-Skjellerup Comet Flyby

Contract Appeals Board Overturns NASA Award to Computer Sciences Corp.

Discovery Readied For Apr. 12 Launch

Hubble Telescope Deployment Set for Record Shuttle Altitude

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EVA Requirement Dispute Threatens To Disrupt Space Station Program

By JAMES R. ASKER

NASA, Intelsat Discuss Shuttle Rescue Of Satellite Stranded in Useless Orbit

By CRAIG COVAULT

NASA Begins Operating Testbed to Assess Semi-Autonomous Navigation Techniques

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

Aviation Week | March 26 1990 Table of Contents

EVA Requirement Dispute Threatens To Disrupt Space Station Program

By JAMES R. ASKER

NASA, Intelsat Discuss Shuttle Rescue Of Satellite Stranded in Useless Orbit

By CRAIG COVAULT

NASA Begins Operating Testbed to Assess Semi-Autonomous Navigation Techniques

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

Soviets Claim Reconnaissance Satellite Launched by Atlantis Has Failed

Single Atlas to Launch Three Small Satellites

Subcommittee Says NASA Likely To Face $1 -Billion Budget Cut

ESA Retargeting Giotto Spacecraft For Grigg-Skjellerup Comet Flyby

Contract Appeals Board Overturns NASA Award to Computer Sciences Corp.

Discovery Readied For Apr. 12 Launch

Hubble Telescope Deployment Set for Record Shuttle Altitude

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