September 11, 2000

September 11, 2000

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Controversy Erupts Over USAF Space Range Safety

By CRAIG COVAULT6 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

NRO Wants License To Take Risks

By ROBERT WALL5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Alcatel To Build, Operate France Telecom Multimedia Satellite

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA5 min

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Controversy Erupts Over USAF Space Range Safety

The Air Force safety chief is concerned about an organization structured like the one in Challenger

By CRAIG COVAULT6 min

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NRO Wants License To Take Risks

WASHINGTON National Reconnaissance Office Director Keith Hall wants to restore a credo of risk-taking to the agency that builds U.S. intelligence-gathering satellites, a mind-set that has been lost in recent years. “We have an outstanding record of delivering capability better than what we were [asked] to do,” Hall stressed.

By ROBERT WALL5 min

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Alcatel To Build, Operate France Telecom Multimedia Satellite

PARIS In yet another sign of burgeoning demand for space-based broadband capacity, France Telecom has awarded Alcatel Space a contract to build a large multimedia telecommunications satellite. The unnamed spacecraft will carry 35 Ku-band and 10 C-band transponders on an Alcatel 3000B3 bus, said Jean-Phillipe Vanot, France Telecom’s long-line manager.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA5 min

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Bush Urged To Reverse Clinton's NMD Delay

WASHINGTON Congressional Republicans are hoping to rally Texas Gov. George W. Bush to immediately reverse the Administration’s deferral of national missile defense deployment if he succeeds President Clinton in January. Republican lawmakers are intent on salvaging the initial 2005 deployment deadline for a limited NMD system of 20 ground-based interceptors, eventually expanding to 100, in Alaska.

By PAUL MANN,ROBERT WALL4 min

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Academy Safety Review Adds to Discord

CAPE CANAVERAL Sharp criticism is emerging from the safety offices at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg AFB, Calif., as well as the State of Florida, over changes proposed by a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) review of launch safety operations at the East and West Coast ranges.

By CRAIG COVAULT4 min

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RSCC Picks NEC For Satellite Payload

PARIS The Russian Satellite Communications Co. has selected Japan’s NEC to build the payloads for three new Express AM satellites, part of an ambitious space segment renewal plan to be put in place in the next four years. The spacecraft, to be launched in the first and third quarter of 2002 and the first quarter of 2003, will each comprise 40 transponders and employ buses built by NPO PM of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, based on the model built for Eutelsat’s Sesat.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA3 min

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New Sigint Sats Nixed

Washington The National Reconnaissance Office and National Security Agency have decided not to invest in a new generation of signals intelligence gathering satellite and instead stick with the satellite designs now in use. The agencies turned to industry to see what concepts exist to develop a sigint counterpart to the significant imagery collection improvement the NRO hopes to gain from the Future Imagery Architecture.

By Robert Wall3 min

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Two Government Teams Set To Support JSF Flight Testing

EDWARDS AFB, CALIF. The stage has been set for the start of an aggressive flight test program for the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) demonstrator aircraft. Two government teams—including representatives from three U.S. military services and the U.K.—have been set up here to support the two contractors in the scheduled year-long test program.

By BRUCE A. SMITH3 min

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JSF Lift Fan Has Another Glitch

By DAVID A. FULGHUM3 min

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Mediator Joins Effort To Settle Raytheon Strike

By Anthony L. Velocci2 min

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