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  ESA Press Release No.20; Paris, 17 June 1991

  ITALY/ESA AGREEMENT ON HERMES TEST FACILITIES

  Senator  Learoo Saparito,  Under Secretary  of  State  at  the Italian
  Ministry of  Universities, Scientific   reserach and   Technology, and
  Mr.Jean-Marie Luton, Director General of ESA, will be  signing a major
  cooperation agreement at 11.30 a.m., on Tuesday, 18  June 1991  in the
  ESA pavilion at the Le Bourget Air Show.

  The subject of the agreement is the co-financing  by Italy  and ESA of
  test facilities  vital for   the development   of the   Hermes thermal
  protection  systems.  The  facilities will  be located  in Italy, near
  Capua. 

  Known as SCIROCCO, the facilities will  principally consist  of a very
  high temperature arc-heated wind tunnel that can simulate  heat fluxes
  comparable to those which Hermes will  encounter on  re-entry into the
  atmosphere.

  The cost of developing SCIROCCO, which should be completed  by the end
  of  1993, will  be around  50 Million   Accounting Units   (75 billion
  
  and Italy 60%.