WASHINGTON Senior military and aerospace industry officials have conceded that no AIM9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile contract award will be made until Fiscal 1 995 because Congress has blocked release of a request for proposals, thereby triggering up to a six-month delay in the program.

LONDON A key parliamentary committee has approved the Royal Air Force's proposed acquisition of 30 Lockheed C-130J Hercules aircraft, making it increasingly likely that Britain will become Lockheed's first customer for the newest-version of the military transport.

PARIS Anew multibillion-dolbr com-mercial space market is be-ing created within the satellite remote-sensing field by rapid expansion of low-cost infor-mation technology. The new "information data highway" is already facilitat-ing a much broader utilization of space imagery, at lower cost, according to internation-al satellite image suppliers and users meeting in Paris.

WASHINGTON Defense Support Program satellites detected the launch of an Iraqi Scud that killed 28 U.S. soldiers during Desert Storm and provided an alert warning within 50 sec., but a full missile warning report was not forwarded from the DSP network because of a "worst-case combination of events."