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Week ending April 15, 2001
+++ Europe to fund Galileo programme +++ Austrian takes Lauda Air stake from Lufthansa +++ X-32 converts to STOVL mode +++ Airlines must restructure, says IATA +++ 2001 Mars Odyssey sucessfully launched +++ Southwest has 100 Boeing 737NGs +++ News in brief +++


Europe to fund Galileo programme
Geld für Galileo GPS-System

The European Commission, European Space Agency and private companies have been given the go-ahead, with an initial 100 million Euros of funding, to prepare for a Private Public Partnership (PPP) to develop and deliver Galileo, Europe's contribution to the next generation global navigation satellite service. One billion Euros (from Commission and ESA funds) will be allocated for the full development phase in December, with the aim of commissioning a fully operating system by 2008. Galileo will enable Europe to create a truly integrated transport infrastructure making more efficient use of land, sea and air resources, improving safety and generating new commercial and public services.
"This is excellent news for the whole of European Industry," said M. Armand Carlier, Chairman and Chief Executive of Astrium, "and especially for those in the space community. Galileo is a major programme that will have considerable economic benefits in terms of market and employment all over Europe. Astrium, a major partner in Galileo Industries which was created last year in Brussels, wholly endorses the initiative of the European Commission and will continue to support the development of the different phases of the project." The development phase now agreed will include the preparation, in close cooperation with ESA, of detailed project objectives and mission requirements, such as system performance, optimised interoperability, compatibility and redundancy with other satellite navigation systems, and aspects of continuity of service for critical applications in crisissituations.

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Austrian takes Lauda Air stake from Lufthansa
Lufthansa verkauft Lauda-Air-Anteile

After the Lauda Trust did not exercise its right of first refusal for the remaining Lauda Air shares held by Lufthansa (8.9 % of Lauda Air shares), the conditional share purchase agreement concluded between Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa in November 2000 regarding these shares became effective. Title to the shares was transferred to Austrian Airlines on April 10, 2001. By acquiring these shares, Austrian Airlines increased its stake in Lauda Air to 67%. The majority of the remaining Lauda Air shares belongs to the Lauda Trust and is subject to a put/call option agreement between the Lauda Trust and Austrian Airlines. By means of the public takeover offer, which until April 17, 2001 can still be accepted by holders of shares or participation certificates at a price of 7.60 EUR per share and 5.70 EUR per participation certificate, Austrian Airlines would like to acquire the approximately 2.4 % of Lauda Air shares and approximately 33% of Lauda Air participation certificates that are currently still widely held.

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X-32 converts to STOVL mode
Erste STOVL-Konversion mit Boeing X-32

In what veteran test pilot Dennis O'Donoghue called "the best day of my flying career," the Boeing Joint Strike Fighter X-32B on March 13 successfully completed its first in-flight conversions - from conventional to short-takeoff-and-vertical landing (STOVL) flight mode and back again. The milestone marks the beginning of flight test of the Boeing direct-lift solution to the customer's STOVL requirement. On the aircraft's third test flight, O'Donoghue, the company's lead STOVL test pilot, demonstrated the first flow-switch transition, re-directing the X-32B's engine thrust from the cruise nozzle to its lift nozzles and then back again. The transition was accomplished at 180 knots and 9,500 feet during the 58-minute flight. Later the same day on the aircraft's fourth flight, O'Donoghue completed seven flow-switch transitions at speeds ranging from 140 to 185 knots and altitudes between 6,000 and 9,500 feet. The aircraft spent approximately 40 minutes of the 52-minute flight in the STOVL mode. Semi-jetborne handling qualities tests including throttle transients and lift-nozzle thrust vectoring also were completed during the flights. O'Donoghue said the conversions between conventional and STOVL flight modes were extremely smooth. "Today's testing confirmed the ease in conversion between conventional and STOVL flight modes as well as the low pilot workload required," O'Donoghue said. "Ease of operation and the ability to rapidly convert to and fromconventional and STOVL modes gives the pilot tremendous operational flexibility and are keyadvantages of direct lift.

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Airlines must restructure, says IATA
Kostensenkung bei Fluggesellschaften notwendig

"The fundamental laws of economics have not changed - and our industry should better manage itself accordingly," said IATA Director General Pierre J. Jeanniot, at the opening of the Airline Financial Summit 2001 in New York, 5 April. The Director General was commenting on the increasingly frail profitability of the air transport industry, caused by competitive pressure on yields, the large cost increases imposed by higher fuel prices over the past two years and the slow impact of the e-commerce revolution on airlines' marketing costs."But there are more fundamental problems," continued Jeanniot. "Only a profitable airline industry can deliver the type of price/quality ratio the consumer expects. Increased consolidation is required but is being held back by out-dated bilateral treaty provisions and archaic foreign ownership rules. These anachronisms are preventing a more efficient and consistently profitable structure to emerge." "Then - whilst airlines have been privatised, many airports and most ATC facilities remain as government monopolies, with perennial inefficiencies and capacity shortages. In some parts of the world, airports that have been privatised have been regarded as licenses to print money, in the
absence of independent watchdog authorities."

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2001 Mars Odyssey sucessfully launched
Neue Marssonde unterwegs

The 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems - Astronautics Operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was launched successfully and is on its way to the planet Mars. Liftoff occurred at 11:02 a.m. EDT aboard a Delta II launch vehicle from Launch Complex 17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
The 2001 Mars Odyssey is NASA's next mission to Mars and will join the Mars Global Surveyor, also designed and built by Lockheed Martin, in an effort to continue scientific reconnaissance of the planet's surface and explore for signs of water. In addition to designing and building the Odyssey, Lockheed Martin is controlling the Mars Global Surveyor, the 2001 Mars Odyssey and the Stardust spacecraft, in cooperation with JPL, from its facilities southwest of Denver. The 2001 Mars Odyssey will reach the Red Planet October 24, 2001, enter an initial elliptical orbit, then perform aerobraking maneuvers for several weeks to place the spacecraft in a lower circular orbit around the planet's poles. Aerobraking uses atmospheric drag to slow the spacecraft into its final orbit, thereby minimizing the weight and fuel required to reach the lower Mars orbit. Once it achieves this orbit, the spacecraft will use its thrusters to settle into a polar, nearly circular orbit averaging 250 miles above the surface. The duration of the 2001 Mars Odyssey's mission is two Martian years (46 Earth months).

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Southwest has 100 Boeing 737NGs
100 neue Boeing 737 bei Southwest

Boeing announced that Next-Generation 737-700 launch customer Southwest Airlines took delivery of its 100th 737-700 on March 30. The milestone comes three years and three months after Boeing delivered the first Next-Generation 737-700 to Southwest in December 1997. Southwest operates the largest fleet of 737 airplanes in the world. "Adding to our fleet of Boeing 737-700s has enabled us to continue to grow into new markets, serve more customers, and bring our brand of affordable air service to more people than ever before," said Jim Wimberly, Southwest Airlines executive vice president and chief of operations. "This is a significant day in the history of Southwest Airlines." This newest airplane is one of 25 737-700s Boeing will deliver to Southwest this year. Another 27 airplanes are scheduled for delivery in 2002, and 26 more in 2003. Southwest has orders with Boeing up to the year 2012.

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NEWS IN BRIEF / KURZMELDUNGEN

BAE Systems has signed an agreement with Hangxin Aviation Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd in the Peoples Republic of China, to establish an aviation repair centre in Guangzhou for its civil aviation products. Under the agreement, Hangxin Aviation will provide warranty and non-warranty support for BAE Systems Avionics' family of Airbus wing slats and flaps computers and Boeing 747 autothrottle computers. Full technical back up will be provided by BAE Systems Avionics' primary support centre at Rochester in the UK. Hangxin Aviation's modern and fully equipped repair centre in Guangzhou is CAAC approved and located just 80 miles north of Hong Kong. Hangxin's customer base already extends to all the major Chinese Airlines and other key operators in the Far East region through their Singapore facility.
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Milwaukee-based Skyway Airlines has signed a memo of understanding placing firm orders for twenty 44-seat ERJ 140 Ers regional aircraft made by Embraer in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo. The document includes an equal number of options, which may alternate to the 37-seat ERJ 135 and the 50-seat ERJ 145. Skyway is the second airline to order the midsize of the ERJ 145 family of regional jets, which logs a total of 855 firm orders and 212 options. The first ERJ 140 for Skyway is expected to be delivered in March of 2002. Skyway's fleet consists of 15 Beech 1900D turboprop aircraft and seven Fairchild Dornier 328 regional jets.
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Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Space Propulsion operations announced its plans to begin development of a full-scale engine demonstrator for a next generation high-performance liquid-hydrogen-fueled 60,000 pound-thrust-class rocket engine, designated the RL60. "The RL60 will be the highest performing upper-stage engine in the world,'' stated J. Robert Bullock, program manager for the RL60 program. "The development of this new engine will help us maintain our leadership position in providing upper-stage liquid rocket propulsion and will more than double the thrust capability of our highest performing RL10 engines presently in service.'' The RL60's performance increase will come in a package approximately the same size as P&W's RL10, currently the industry's workhorse upper-stage engine for Atlas, Titan and Delta launch vehicles. The new engine will offer throttling capability ranging from 50,000 to 65,000 pounds of thrust. The P&W-sponsored program calls for the RL60 to be built and tested domestically with key components to be provided by three international industry strategic suppliers; Volvo Aero of Sweden, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) of Japan and Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (CADB) of Russia. ``While maintaining the company's role as designer and integrator, we will utilize the very best capability that the global industry has to offer and at the same time broaden our supplier market,'' said Bullock. Volvo Aero will provide a regeneratively cooled nozzle, IHI will provide the main hydrogen (fuel) turbopump, and CADB will produce the liquid oxygen (oxidizer) turbopump.
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The first vehicle in the Proton M series successfully lifted off at 7:47 a.m. Moscow time on April 7 (11:47 p.m. Friday EDT) carrying a satellite for the Russian government. The Ekran-M satellite was successfully separated from the rocket's Breeze M upper stage into geostationary orbit about 7 hours later, rounding out the mission for launch vehicle builder Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center. Proton M is the upgraded version of Khrunichev's highly reliable Proton K launch vehicle, featuring more powerful engines, structural enhancements to support the increased lift capability and a state-of-the-art digital guidance system. The Proton M was teamed with the flight-tested Breeze M upper stage, also built by Khrunichev. Together the upgrades provide enhanced performance, greater payload volume and increased mission design flexibility. The Proton M/Breeze M combination is the latest addition to Khruniche's and ILS' launch vehicle offerings. "With its additional lift capability, the Proton M/Breeze M is the perfect complement to our Lockheed-Martin-built Atlas family and the Atlas III version that was successfully flown for the first time last May," Albrecht said. "Customers can be assured of timely access to space with these two vehicles available for launches and mutual backup."
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After an exhaustive investigation, Transport Canada Authorities (TCA) and the FAA have lifted the airspeed restriction limiting the Vne of the Bell 407, issued after an accident involving a 407 in December 2000. The FAA approved an Alternate Means of Compliance (AMOC) Friday April 6, 2001. Authorities from TCA, FAA, CTSB and the NTSB have agreed that no data has emerged from the investigation that would attribute the cause of the accident to a tail rotor strike. The investigation into what did cause the accident is continuing. As of today the FAA and the TCA have approved the return the Bell 407 to the full Vne of 140 knots. Commenting on the action Jeff Pino, Vice President for the Commercial Business Unit at Bell Helicopter said, "We at Bell are extremely pleased by this action. The 407 is the finest light single helicopter in the world today. Returning it to 140 knots Vne allows this aircraft to provide our customers the performance and value they chose when they purchased it."
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One of four new Trans World Airlines (TWA) 717-200 passenger jets departed under an arch of water at the Boeing Long Beach Division in California Thursday, April 12. This is the first time an airline customer has taken delivery of four airplanes the same day. The 717s lined up and took off in sequence from the Long Beach Municipal Airport and then performed a low-level pass near the company's facility before heading to St. Louis, Mo. The twinjets - flown by a team of eight TWA pilots - were the initial four of 15 717s scheduled for delivery this year to TWA. Currently, TWA has 15 717s in revenue service. The airplanes carry 111 passengers in a two-class arrangement. This week, American Airlines announced that it had completed acquisition of most of the assets of TWA, including its 717 airplanes.
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The X-40A vehicle successfully performed a second free flight test on April 12 at Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif. The X-40A was lifted by an Army Chinook helicopter to an altitude of 15,050 feet (4,587 meters) and released at 8:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, reaching a speed of 428 feet per second, to complete the test when the wheels rolled to a stop at 8:47 a.m. Pacific time.The X-40A's free flight and landing tests are being conducted as part of NASA's X-37 program, intended to reduce the risk of flight testing the X-37 experimental re-entry vehicle. The X-37 will enable NASA to test advanced technologies in the harsh environment of space and in returning through Earth's atmosphere. The X-40A is an 85 percent scale version of the X-37.
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Boeing and U.S. Air Force have finalized contract terms for 10 F-15E aircraft, which will sustain production of the world's best multi-role fighter into 2004. Last year, Boeing began building the planes with initial funding from the Air Force's fiscal year 2000 budget. The aircraft will have several upgrades that make them the most capable F-15Es delivered to date. Valued at approximately $571.1 million, the contract covers airframes and certain other components. The Air Force will purchase some items separately - such as engines - as it has in the past. The planes will be the 227th-236th F-15Es produced at the Boeing facility here. Deliveries start during the first half of 2002 and will extend through the last quarter of 2004.
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On April 10, Boeing confirmed today that Midwest Express Airlines, recently ranked the No. 1 Domestic Airline by the 2001 Zagat Airline Survey, has selected the 717 for its fleet modernization program. Midwest Express has signed a memo of understanding to order up to 50 Boeing 717-200 airplanes. Once a firm contract is signed, it will consist of a firm order for 20 717 airplanes, with options for an additional 30. The value of the firm order will be $750 million, with deliveries scheduled to begin in February 2003, continuing into 2006.
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Astrium GmbH (Bremen, Germany) has awarded a $7.9 million contract to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics. The contract calls for the purchase, over the next two years, of bipropellant Model R-4D-11 rocket engines to support the German/European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). The ATV is a human-rated vehicle which will provide supplies and services to the International Space Station. Each ATV vehicle will be equipped with four R-4D-11 engines used for orbit-changing (Delta-V) maneuvers during the ATV's approach and descent from the International Space Station. The R-4D-11 engines can also be used to re-boost the Space Station to higher orbits when the ATV is docked. The R-4D-11 bipropellant rocket engine has been the "work-horse'' of the satellite industry for decades. It has been used on several human-rated vehicles, and has provided apogee insertion for most geostationary satellites currently on orbit.
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The Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter propulsion team has completed accelerated mission testing (AMT) for the X-35B demonstrator's short-takeoff/vertical landing propulsion system -one of the final steps before full flight certification. "With the completion of AMT we're moving swiftly toward STOVL flight," said Tom Burbage, executive vice president and general manager of the Lockheed Martin JSF program. "We've just demonstrated very clearly the benefits of the revolutionary shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system: a more benign ground environment and more lifting power with less engine strain and less ground surface erosion."
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The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded a 10-year, $601 million contract to GE Aircraft Engines (GEAE) to provide hardware upgrade kits for 1,202 J85-5 engines powering the USAF fleet of 509 T-38 "Talon" supersonic jet trainers. The upgrade kits are being produced at GE's Lynn, Massachusetts, engine production facility, where the J85 engine family was first developed more than 40 years ago. Delivery of the upgrade kits is scheduled to begin later this year. The J85-powered T-38 is the USAF's primary pilot training aircraft. The J85 upgrade is part of an overall modernization program designed to continue the service life of the T-38 aircraft through 2040. The upgrade kit consists of an improved technology "spooled" compressor rotor and stator assembly, a single-piece cast mainframe, upgrade components for the high-pressure turbine section, an improved afterburner liner, and a new ignition system. The kit also includes a new exhaust ejector nozzle to achieve higher net thrust at takeoff and lower fuel burn throughout the aircraft flight envelope.
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Some 40 Japanese flight attendants - 38 ladies and two gentlemen - will soon take care of Austrian Airlines' passengers on flights from Vienna to Tokyo and Osaka. This should specifically respond to the needs of Japanese travellers. At the beginning of this year already, the Japanese board chinaware in the Grand Class came out in a whole new outfit. Mastering the appropriate Far-East etiquette and language, these new crew members in red Austrian Airlines' uniform will perfectly suit this innovative concept for the pleasure of their guests.
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The Department of Defense should stick with its winner-take-all strategy for near-term development and production of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) because it is the most cost-effective way to proceed. In addition, the Department should consider funding a potential future competitor that would be capable of developing and manufacturing the next major upgrade of the mission system equipment--the electronic eyes and ears of the JSF. These are the two key policy findings in RAND's analysis of strategies for fostering competition during the production phase of the proposed $300 billion program. The fast-track study, requested by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and conducted for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics, was launched last July, delivered in October and is being publicly released now.
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A burst hydraulic line and defective computer software caused a V-22 Osprey aircraft to go out of control and crash in North Carolina during a training flight last December, a Marine Corps' report says. Marine Gen. Martin R. Berndt announced the findings of his service's Judge Advocate General Manual Investigation into the cause of the crash at an April 5 Pentagon press briefing. Four Marines were killed Dec. 11 when their Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashed near Jacksonville, N.C. The twin-engined Osprey has unique prop-rotors that can be moved to point forward for level flight like a fixed-wing plane or upward to provide helicopter-like maneuverability. Reading from a prepared statement, Berndt, commanding general of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C., said the causes of the crash were twofold and weren't attributable to aircrew error.
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One year after the $400 million infusion of growth capital from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CD&R) and Allianz Capital Partners, Fairchild Dornier has achieved its initial goals to establish financial stability for development of the 728JET Family of airliners now in production, solidify its existing aircraft and customer support programs, and strengthen company employment. The investment took place April 13, 2000. "This has been an extraordinary year for our company," said Fairchild Dornier Chairman Chuck Pieper. "The recapitalization of Fairchild Dornier and the implementation of the new company strategy firmly establishes the company as a major player in the global marketplace for airliners in the under-110 seat segment and in the business jet and government programs segments." Production of the 328JET is at four aircraft per month and 62 aircraft have been delivered to customers around the world. The quality of the aircraft is at an all-time high with recent in-service statistics showing technical reliability above 99 percent.
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April 12, 1961: at Baikonur at 9.06 am Moscow time, the ignition of an R-7 rocket shattered the peace of a fine spring morning. The R-7 had been designed to carry a nuclear warhead. Less than four years previously, it had put the world's first artificial satellite into orbit. This time, its cargo was altogether more fragile. A 27-year-old Russian lieutenant called Yuri Gagarin was about to become the first man to orbit the Earth. As the rocket's increasing acceleration drove him deeper into his couch, Gagarin cried "Poyekhali!" - "Let's go". Driven by the fire of almost 250 tonnes of kerosene and liquid oxygen, his Semyorka - "Little Seven", in the affectionate slang of Soviet rocket engineers and the new corps of cosmonauts - hurled him through the darkening blue of the high atmosphere into the black of space. Nine minutes after launch, he was in orbit. "I can see the clouds! I can see everything! It's beautiful!" Just 108 minutes after his Baikonur lift-off, an exhilarated Gagarin was back on Earth, blinking in the sunshine and grinning at a crowd of suspicious collective farm workers who had seen his parachute come down. He had made only one orbit, his Vostok capsule controlled entirely from the ground. No one had known how the human body and the human brain would react to weightlessness. No one had really known anything. Now, they knew more.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. is engaged in talks to seek U.S. Air Force's funding to revive the X-33, an experimental spacecraft intended to replace the space shuttle that has been scuttled, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The X-33 program was canceled last month by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) after encountering technical delays and cost overruns. About 1.2 billion dollars were spent on the program since it began in 1996. In recent weeks, Lockheed has been vigorously pushing a deal in which the Air Force would continue funding the program, which would then be refocused to develop a rocket plane to carry weapons, the report said. As part of its efforts to develop next-generation weapons, the Air Force has been looking at planes that could fly into space, launch a bomb from orbit on a target anywhere in the world, then return to base -- all within 90 minutes or so. Picking up the critical technology already developed for the X-33, including reusable rockets, would help speed up that goal, an Air Force official said.
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European aircraft maker Airbus is considering construction of a plane that would compete directly against U.S. giant Boeing Co.'s (BA) planned Sonic Cruiser, the Guardian daily reported Saturday. Airbus is to consult the big airlines on a possible European rival to the American airliner which would fly close to the speed of sound, the Guardian said quoting "senior executives" of EADS, the majority shareholder in Airbus.
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Russian Vice-Premier Ilya Klebanov and President of the Council of Governors of the Boeing Aerospace Company Philip M.Condit discussed the details of the agreement concluded between the Russian Rosaviakosmos Company and Boeing. The vice-premier later told journalists that the sides had discussed at their Friday meeting some problems to expand the joint programmes, as well as the possibility of jointly developing an aircraft for regional lines and a business-class plane. The joint regional plane, he said, designed to carry 50-100 passengers, could be developed within four or five years and will be similar to the Russian Tu-324 aircraft. Klebanov also said that the sides had agreed to draw up in May a schedule of joint work in this direction, noting that it was yet premature to speak about the financial aspect of the project. Rosaviakosmos Director Yuri Koptev, who took part in the meeting, said that the talks with Boeing were "multifarious and touched on the possibility of cooperating in such areas as construction of the International Space Station and development of joint launching systems". According to Koptev, the Friday agreement between Boeing and Rosaviakosmos stipulates the use of a Russian (FGB-2) functional cargo block, especially on the International Space Station, and also of Russian Zenit boosters for launchings with Boeing's participation from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
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Sweden's AerotechTelub, Danish Aerotech in Denmark and Norway's Astec Helicopter Services have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to form a joint venture to develop a highly efficient international logistics support organization for defence helicopters. The armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are planning to jointly purchase more than 70 helicopters under the Nordic Standard Helicopter Programme (NSHP), providing a basis for the development of a services-competitive Nordic resource operating in an expanding international market. The helicopters will operate in a variety of defence roles including troop transport, search and rescue and international peace keeping operations. Named the Nordic Support and Service Centre (NSSC), the new helicopter maintenance support resource will be created by three partners, each with a broad range of skills and capabilities in supporting and maintaining aircraft for many of the world's leading helicopter operators. In combination with the Nordic helicopter purchase plan, this opens interesting business opportunities for the new joint venture.
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