May 23, 1994

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COVER STORY

EUROFIGHTER PARTNERS DEBATE PROGRAM ISSUES

Features to be evaluated in the 4,500-hr. flight test program include an advanced radar and a cockpit that allows head-up flight in all modes

By CAROLE A. SHIFRIN9 min

HEADLINE NEWS

NASA FIGHTS BUDGET CUTS, DEFENDS RUSSIA ON STATION

WASHINGTON NASA, faced with inevitable cuts in its 1995 budget request, is squeezing its space science and aeronautics programs as it tries to hold the line on funding the space station. Last week, the agency and top Clinton Administration officials defended the station's $2.1-billion request and the still vaguely defined Russian role in what is to be the cornerstone of the U.S. human space flight program.

By JAMES R. ASKER6 min

HEADLINE NEWS

FRANCE/U.K. PACT ENDS 'AIRPORT WAR'

As first major airline controversy tied to European deregulation flares, France seeks time to devise a strategy for survival in a unified marketplace

By PIERRE SPARACO5 min

COVER STORY

FOUR NATIONS FACE CHOICES

WARTON, ENGLAND First flights of the German and British-built prototypes of the Eurofighter 2000 brought to an end 2½ years of delays caused by continuing development work and longer-than-expected integration of the advanced flight control system software.

HEADLINE NEWS

NEW RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT TO COMPETE AGAINST SPOT

PARIS Russia plans to develop a new commercial remote sensing satellite to compete against the French Spot system and a growing list of startup companies. The new Russian civil spacecraft set for launch by the late 1990s is to have an imaging resolution comparable to the envisioned 5-meter (16.5-ft.) resolution of the Spot 5 spacecraft still under definition by Spot Image and the French space agency CNES.

By CRAIG COVAULT3 min

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