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...obligational authority," the Pentagon's right to sign contracts for future spending, would leap to $258 billion, a 13.2% inflation-adjusted rise. The plans constitute what is almost a do-everything-at-once policy. Reagan argues that "critical investments" are needed in a long list of missiles, bombers, cargo planes, ships, tanks and funds for training and readiness in order to make up for years of neglect and counter a Soviet military buildup...
...Three more Arianes will be hurled aloft in 1982. The first will carry an Italian-made meteorological satellite and the British-built Marecs B maritime communications satellite. In fact, comsats, as they are known in space jargon, should continue to be Ariane's major and most lucrative cargo through the decade. Even at a cost of nearly $50 million apiece, excluding the launch fee, comsats can be a bargain, since they make it possible to transmit all sorts of information, from television pictures to computer data, to virtually any place on earth...
...Corp. were all smiles last week, while at rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis the gloom was thick enough to slice with a propeller. The reason: word had leaked out that the Pentagon was recommending the $4.6 billion purchase of 50 of the giant Lockheed C-5Ns as cargo airlifters for the nation's rapid deployment force. The decision was an unexpected one, since only last August chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Marines had unanimously recommended that a new plane designed by McDonnell Douglas, the C-17, be chosen over Lockheed...
...Even though the abbreviated flight gave them less data than a longer one might have provided, NASA Geologist James Taranik described the experimenters as "literally jumping up and down with excitement over what they have seen." All five of the automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over...
...trying out for the first time in zero-gravity the shuttle's $100 million Canadian-built mechanical arm. On future flights, the arm will be used to place satellites in earth orbit and to pluck them out of space and load them into the orbiter's big cargo bay when they require servicing or replacing. NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent and manipulated with barely a hitch...