September 25, 1995

September 25, 1995

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HEADLINE NEWS

Missile Studies Saturate Pentagon

By DAVID A. FULGHUM6 min

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Helios Pact to Foster European Recon Solidarity

By CRAIG COVAOLT6 min

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Trw to Build Two Eos Satellites

By BRUCE A. SMITH6 min

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Missile Studies Saturate Pentagon

WASHINGTON Mid-level Pentagon officials are beginning to protest the number of missile defense studies underway, an apparent last-minute effort to rationalize budgets and investments in Fiscal 1997 and after. The three latest are a Joint Chiefs of Staff effort to prioritize ballistic missile defenses, a feasibility study for a triservice cruise missile defense and an examination of the use of tethered balloons for spotting small, stealthy low-flying targets.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM6 min

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Helios Pact to Foster European Recon Solidarity

BONN Germany is moving toward a formal joint program with France for development of the $2-billion Helios 2 imaging reconnaissance satellite system—a decision that will reinforce European political and industrial solidarity. The controversial decision would clear the way for a broader European space reconnaissance effort under the Western European Union.

By CRAIG COVAOLT6 min

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Trw to Build Two Eos Satellites

LOS ANGELES NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center has awarded a $398-million contract to TRW Space & Electronics Group for the production of two satellites for a key segment of the Earth Observing System. The contract is a major event in a development program that has been marked by recurring reviews and re-scoping efforts generated outside the project.

By BRUCE A. SMITH6 min

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Micro-G Lab to Exploit Remote Monitoring

By JAMES T. McKENNA5 min

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Dasa and Alenia in Surprise Initiative

German-Italian strategic alliance could lead to broader European aerospace industry restructuring

By PIERRE SPARACO5 min

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Successful Eva, Landing Cap Troubled Shuttle Flight

By JAMES T. McKENNA5 min

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Bombing Compels Serb Withdrawal

LONDON As Bosnian Serb forces have complied with demands to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, NATO has indefinitely suspended air strikes, which U.S. defense officials say were carried out with unprecedented accuracy.

By JOHN D. MORROCCO3 min

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Moving Inlet Picked for JAST

WASHINGTON To improve low-speed performance of its proposed next-generation, vertical-landing strike fighter, Boeing researchers have developed a moving, dual air inlet for the aircraft's modified F-22-derivative engine. At takeoff and landing, a normal supersonic inlet moves forward and down to increase its area and also to reveal an auxiliary inlet.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM3 min

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Xenon Thruster to Propel New Millennium Spacecraft

LOS ANGELES ASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory selected Spectrum Astro, Inc., on Sept. 18 to be the laboratory's industrial partner for the first "New Millennium" mission, aimed at an asteroid and comet flyby at the end of the century. The New Millennium program is to validate technologies that will enable lowcost spacecraft for Earth-orbiting and interplanetary missions (AW&ST, May 15, p. 72).

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM3 min

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Pathfinder May Raise Altitude Record Again

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM2 min

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