July 30, 1990

July 30, 1990

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HEADLINE NEWS

Britain Will Cut Armed Forces By 18% Over Next Five Years

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN

HEADLINE NEWS

Gas Turbine Blade Plant To Be Built in Italy

HEADLINE NEWS

Europe Resumes Commercial Launch Services With Ariane

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ

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Britain Will Cut Armed Forces By 18% Over Next Five Years

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN

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Gas Turbine Blade Plant To Be Built in Italy

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Europe Resumes Commercial Launch Services With Ariane

KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA Europe’s Ariane launcher resumed commercial service last week with the successful orbiting of two telecommunications satellites from the Guiana Space Center. The Ariane V37 mission was the first since last February’s in-flight explosion of Ariane V36, which forced Arianespace to suspend operations of the three-stage vehicle.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ

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First Commercial Atlas Places Scientific Satellite Into Orbit

First launch of the commercialized version of the General Dynamics Atlas Centaur was successfully launched July 25 carrying the joint Air Force/NASA Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) into a highly elliptical orbit.
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Station Exceeds Weight, Power, EVA Limits, But NASA Says No Major Redesign Needed

By JAMES R. ASKER

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Air Force 'Eagle Class’ Lightsat to Study Strategic Communications, Surveillance Techniques

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Panel Seeks Competition Of Navy, USAF Launchers

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Hydrogen Leak Forces Shuttle Launch Changes

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Dayton Debuts as Biennial U. S. Air and Trade Show

DAYTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT The 1990 U. S. Air and Trade Show at Dayton, billed as an event that would help transition the annual Dayton air show into the country’s premier biennial air and trade show by 1992, was held here July 19-22. The transition show incorporated several changes from earlier Dayton air show offerings, including two trade days and flight demonstrations conducted during those days.

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO

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FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW PREVIEW

All Exhibit Space Sold Out For 1990 Farnborough Show

LONDON Despite the thaw in the Cold War and the slackening in defense spending by Western nations, participation at Farnborough is expected to be as robust as ever this year. All space was sold out early and there is a long waiting list of hopeful would-be exhibitors even though the Society of British Aerospace Companies, sponsors of Farnborough International ’90, expanded the internal exhibition space by more than 8% this year.

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN

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