Jan 24 1990
From The Space Library
Four major U.S. defense contractors General Dynamics Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, United Technologies Corporation, and Rockwell International Corporation-announced they would jointly develop the X-30 National Aerospace Plane. Until September 1989, industry had roughly matched Government investment in the project, $806.3 million since inception during the Reagan administration. "Fiscal realities," said the Wall Street Journal, "spur the call for teamwork". (W Post, Jan 24/90; WSJ, Jan 24/90)
Japan launched a lunar probe from Uchinoura, on their southern coast, making it the third nation, after the United States and the Soviet Union, able to send up a moon probe. The flight schedule was to go into elliptical orbit around the Earth until it came 'within 10,000 miles of the Moon, launch an instrument package to orbit the moon, and send back data concerning temperatures and electrical fields. (WSJ, Jan 25/90; W Post, Jan 25/90; NY Times, Jan 25/90)
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, issued a call for proposals for design of a Satellite Servicer System flight demonstrator to show the ability to maintain satellites m polar and high inclination orbits. The on-orbit flight demonstration would exercise rendezvous and docking, as well as orbital replacement unit exchange and fluid transfer. (NASA Release 90-12)
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