August 26, 1996

August 26, 1996

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COVER STORY

Sukhoi Set to Exploit Thrust Vector Control

By NICOLAY NOVICHKOV9 min

HEADLINE NEWS

Japan Launches New Eye for Environmental Studies

By MICHAEL MECHAM,EIICHIRO SEKIGAWA6 min

HEADLINE NEWS

FAA Uncovers More Valujet Lapses

By JAMES T. McKENNA6 min

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Sukhoi Set to Exploit Thrust Vector Control

Sukhoi is using payments from the Chinese on a Su-27 license to finance flight tests of the Su-37 with thrust vector control

By NICOLAY NOVICHKOV9 min

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Japan Launches New Eye for Environmental Studies

HONG KONG TOKYO Japan’s launch of its largest Earth-observation satellite will extend scientists’ efforts to understand the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, loss of tropical rainforests and other phenomena associated with global environmental change.

By MICHAEL MECHAM,EIICHIRO SEKIGAWA6 min

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FAA Uncovers More Valujet Lapses

Gaps in records effectively disqualify all of airline’s pilots, instructors and check airmen, and force their retraining

By JAMES T. McKENNA6 min

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Long March Failures Bedevil China’s Commercial Push

HONG KONG WASHINGTON China’s struggle to establish a consistent commercial launch record was dealt another setback when a premature cutoff of a Long March 3’s third-stage engine left a Hughes HS 376 satellite in a useless orbit. The ChinaSat-7, built by Hughes Space and Communications for domestic use, was launched from the Xichang space center in southwest China at 6:27 p.m. Aug. 18.

By MICHAEL MECHAM,JOSEPH C. ANSELMO6 min

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America West Undergoes First Post-ValuJet Inspection

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM6 min

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McDonnell Aircraft Strike Brings ‘Short-Term’ Production Decline

ST. LOUIS The McDonnell Aircraft Co. appears to be gaining the upper hand in the three-month-old labor dispute between the company and striking St. Louis machinists. The military aircraft division of the McDonnell Douglas Corp. has assembled a team of 5,200 people, including about 2,000 outside workers, to replace the 6,700 union members who went on strike June 5.

By ANTHONY L. VELOCCI5 min

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Cost Increases Add to Station Woes

WASHINGTON NASA is considering ways to scale back early scientific work on the international space station to pay for cost increases that threaten to exhaust reserves for the project. The agency’s station program director said a significant part of the cost problem has been caused by prime contractor Boeing Co., and termed the performance of the company and its subcontractors “less than optimum.”

By JOSEPH C. ANSELMO5 min

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French Astronaut Joins Russian/U.S. Mir Crew

By CRAIG COVAULT,PIERRE SPARACO3 min

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Boeing Hiring Hits High Gear

By Paul Proctor2 min

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Fast Launched Successfully

Los Angeles Initial orbital checkout of NASA’s Fast Auroral Snapshot (Fast) Explorer spacecraft was going so smoothly last week that program officials said they might be able to make up some, if not all, of a three-day launch delay resulting from a launch processing problem.

By Bruce A. Smith2 min

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