Feb 21 1989
From The Space Library
In civil proceedings against Rockwell International Corporation in a Los Angeles Federal court, prosecutors recommended that a $5 million fine be levied against the company, after pleading guilty to overbilling the Government on a satellite navigation contract. Rockwell had entered a conditional guilty plea for overbilling the Air Force by nearly $450,000 on contracts for the $1.2 billion NAVSTAR satellite system. (UPI, Feb 21/89; LA Times, Feb 22/89)
The Tass News Agency reported that the Soviet Phobos 2 spacecraft had begun to transmit high quality closeup images of the Mars moon Phobos. Phobos 2 was expected to dispatch two small robot landers to the surface of Phobos. (FBIS-Sov-89-034; LA Times, Feb 23/89; W Post, Feb 27/89)
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