August 30, 1993

August 30, 1993

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Mars Observer's Last Gasp

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM7 min

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Army Officials Deny Rigging SDI Test

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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Assessing SDI Allegations Requires Perspective

By PHILIP J. KLASS5 min

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Mars Observer's Last Gasp

PASADENA, CALIF. August has been disastrous for space flight. On top of the Titan 4 failure came a crush of bad news last week, pushing the month's losses well over $2 billion. The U. S. lost contact with Mars Observer and The Mars Observer mission will likely be lost if contact is not reestablished by about Aug. 28, due to insufficient electrical power, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory projection made last week.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM7 min

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Army Officials Deny Rigging SDI Test

WASHINGTON U. S. Army officials strenuously deny charges that a June, 1984, ballistic missile test was rigged, but they acknowledge that certain actions they took in performing it could have been misinterpreted or misconstrued. Army officials said the actions included:

By DAVID A. FULGHUM5 min

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Assessing SDI Allegations Requires Perspective

WASHINGTON Assessing the validity of published allegations by unnamed Reagan Administration officials that a 1984 antiballistic missile test was rigged to deceive the USSR, and inadvertently the U. S. Congress, requires important technical and historical perspectives.

By PHILIP J. KLASS5 min

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Deutch Sets Goals for Joint Aircraft

WASHINGTON Pentagon acquisition chief John M. Deutch has directed the Air Force and Navy to develop by Nov. 1 a plan for a Joint Advanced Strike Technology program that would support meeting the two services' operational requirements for next-generation fighter/strike aircraft.

By JOHN D. MORROCCO4 min

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Israel Rejects Report Critical of Arrow Missile

WASHINGTON The Israeli government is strenuously denying claims in a recently released congressional report that there are inadequate safeguards on U. S. funding and technologies involved in the Arrow antiballistic missile program.

By JOHN D. MORROCCO4 min

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Nasa Seeks Causes for Noaa-13 Power Failure

COCOA BEACH Engineers from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Martin Marietta are investigating why a $67-million weather satellite launched earlier this month lost all power Aug. 21. The director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, John M. Klineberg, ordered his associate director of flight projects, Jeremiah J. Madden, to head a 12-member board pursuing the cause of the power loss on the satellite, NOAA13.

By JAMES T. MCKENNA4 min

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Russians Adapt Military Technology for Comsats

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Nasa Reviews Shuttle Procedures

By JAMES T. MCKENNA3 min

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Taiwanese Aeroindustry Shows Diversification

TAIPEI Taiwan's position as one of Asia's strongest economies prompted a 60% growth in its second Taipei Aerospace Technology Exhibition, underscoring the belief that the island nation will play a bigger role in aerospace. But exhibitors said they doubt the event is ready to become an air show with flying demonstrations to rival the biennial Asian Aerospace exhibition in Singapore, as TATE backers said during the Aug. 19-22 show.

By MICHAEL MECHAM3 min

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Boeing E-X Completes Tests in Transonic Tunnel

By PAUL PROCTOR2 min

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