August 5, 1996

August 5, 1996

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HEADLINE NEWS

Satcom Surge Presses Boosters

By CRAIG COVAULT

HEADLINE NEWS

13 Companies, Organizations Pooled Talents for Forecast

By Craig Covault

HEADLINE NEWS

Commercial Programs Spur Space Growth

By PIERRE SPARACO

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HEADLINE NEWS

Satcom Surge Presses Boosters

CAPE CANAVERAL The U.S. Transportation Dept’s. commercial space office is about to release two major new industry assessments citing a sharp increase in both the number and size of new international communications spacecraft projected for development over the next several years.

By CRAIG COVAULT

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HEADLINE NEWS

13 Companies, Organizations Pooled Talents for Forecast

Cape Canveral The market research and development staffs from 13 U.S. and international satellite, booster and communications service organizations provided data for the new Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) geosynchronous satellite mission model.

By Craig Covault

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Commercial Programs Spur Space Growth

PARIS Severe deficit pressures continue to force major space-faring nations to curb their government space budgets, but commercialization increasingly supports the industry’s growth, according to Euroconsult, an independent consulting group based in Paris.

By PIERRE SPARACO

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Boeing To Buy Key Rockwell Aerospace and Defense Units

SEATTLE COLORADO SPRINGS Boeing last week signed a definitive, $3-billion agreement to acquire most of Rockwell’s Aerospace and Defense businesses, giving the world’s largest airframe maker a major new stake in U.S. space operations.

By PAUL PROCTOR,WILLIAM B. SCOTT

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Gear Glitch Destroys DC-XA At End of Fourth Flight

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM

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Japanese Consider Platform For Future Stealth Fighter

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China's Buildup Draws Japan's Attention

TOKYO Japan's Defense Agency is showing concern that China's double-digit growth rate in military spending will create instability in Southeast and East Asia. But the JDA doubts that North Ko rea has a nuclear weapons capabi1ity. Those views are presented in the JDA’s annual White Paper assessment of Asian security issues.
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Australian AEW Contract May Spark New Competition

WASHINGTON Australia could prove to be the launch customer for an airborne early warning (AEW) version of the C-130J if no strong competition to Lockheed Martin appears soon. However, aerospace manufacturers say there is growing motivation to compete for the Australian contract given the additional market for a long-endurance, low-price AEW system emerging in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Turkey and even the U.S. Air Force.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM

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Lockheed Martin Quickens Pace Of C-130J Flight Test Program

MELBOURNE, FLA. Lockheed Martin managers are adding three aircraft to their C-130J flight-test fleet to make up for delays last winter in the first flight of the upgraded transport. Lockheed Martin is trying to achieve FAA certification of the C-130J in May, 1997.

By JAMES T. McKENNA

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TWA 800 PROBE

Mosaic of Clues, But Still No Answers

WASHINGTON EAST MORICHES, L.I. Evidence so far from the explosion of TWA Flight 800 still seemed to point toward a bomb as the likely cause, but investigators were increasingly frustrated by the lack of conclusive evidence. While the painstaking recovery of aircraft segments and victims’ bodies continued last week, both National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI investigators pored over the remains looking for hard evidence that would pinpoint the cause as a bomb, missile attack, midair collision or aircraft malfunction.

By BRUCE D. NORDWALL,JOSEPH C. ANSELMO

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