September 19, 1994

September 19, 1994

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HEADLINE NEWS

U.S. BEGINS PUSH FOR NEW LAUNCHER

By JAMES R. ASKER

HEADLINE NEWS

DISCOVERY RETRIEVES SOLAR SATELLITE

By JAMES T. McKENNA

HEADLINE NEWS

MARS PROBE SITE CHOSEN

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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U.S. BEGINS PUSH FOR NEW LAUNCHER

Industry and Administration agree U.S. needs reusable space vehicle, but debate rages on how best to advance technologies and manage effort

By JAMES R. ASKER

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DISCOVERY RETRIEVES SOLAR SATELLITE

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Discovery's astronauts deployed and retrieved a solar research satellite, performed lidar Earth observations and assessed the potential of the shuttle's maneuvering rockets to damage rendezvous targets during their first six days on orbit.

By JAMES T. McKENNA

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MARS PROBE SITE CHOSEN

LOS ANGELES NASA has selected what should be a rock-strewn flood plain as a landing site for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Pathfinder probe, set to arrive at the planet on July 4, 1997. The rocks should have washed down from highlands at an earlier stage in Mars' development, when there still was liquid water.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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RUSSIA SIGNS PACT ON ASIAN LAUNCH SITE

WASHINGTON Russia will pay $115 million to lease facilities at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome this year and has allocated billions of rubles in additional funding for operations and maintenance at the large launch base. The Russian financial commitment was detailed in a government decree signed by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

By JEFFREY M. LENOROVITZ

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AIR FORCE MAY DELAY JPATS, TSSAM

WASHINGTON In an effort to keep most of its major programs intact, including the F-22, the U.S. Air Force has presented money-saving options to senior Pentagon officials that include three-year delays to its new primary training aircraft and stealthy standoff missile programs.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM

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SECRET FLYING WING SLATED FOR ROLLOUT

WASHINGTON The stealthy, secrecy-shrouded, Lockheed/Boeing Tier 3unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle will be rolled out in June at a flyaway cost of $10-12 million each, according to senior Pentagon and Advanced Research Projects Agency officials.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM

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NEW LAYOFFS, PLANT CLOSING AT HUGHES

LOS ANGELES GM Hughes Electronics (GMHE) has taken the first step in implementing a restructuring plan which will include the laying off of an additional 4,400 employees through 1995 and a major plant closure. The change is aimed at consolidating most of the company's defense systems activities in an effort to reduce costs and place greater focus on U.S. government and international customers, according to company officials.

By BRUCE A. SMITH

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SCRAMJET TESTS HIT MARK

NEW YORK A large-scale scramjet developed under the U.S. National Aero-Space Plane program has exceeded performance expectations in ground tests conducted at NASA's Langley Research Center. Based on preliminary results of tests run under conditions simulating flight speeds in excess of Mach 6, thrust levels developed by the hydrogen-fueled Concept Demonstration Engine, or CDE, are about 10% higher at specific fueling conditions than were expected, U.S. Air Force Col.

By STANLEY W. KANDEBO

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COVER STORY

DOUGLAS SEES PROFITS IN SMALLER VOLUMES

The company will be under tremendous pressure through 2000, but its declining cost structure and strong share of niche markets may ensure a long-term future

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI

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TELSTAR LOSS HITS MARTIN, INSURERS

By JAMES R. ASKER

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