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Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2009 ReportWashington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2010 The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, a congressionally mandated group of independent experts established after the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, has released its 2009 annual report. Following the 2003 space shuttle Columbia accident, Congress directed the ASAP to submit an annual report to Congress and the NASA administrator documenting the panel's observations and recommendations. This year's report advises NASA on issues that have potential to directly or indirectly impact the safety of astronauts, NASA personnel, contractors, programs and missions. "The panel's report provides a summary of key safety-related issues the agency confronts at this time," ASAP Chairman Joseph W. Dyer said. ... read more |
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Milpitas CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010Globalstar has announced that the first 90-day window to launch six Globalstar second-generation satellites will open on July 5, 2010. Globalstar plans to launch the new satellites during this time. The satellites will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using the Soyuz launch vehicle. The human-rated Soyuz is used to ferry astronauts and cosmonauts to the International ... more  
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) team led by Northrop Grumman kicked off the new year with the delivery of a critical sensor, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). NPOESS is the nation's next-generation, low-Earth orbiting operational weather and climate monitoring system that will provide operational and long-term weather and ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2010We could be less than a year away from the launch of Tiangong-1, China's first space laboratory. We've been expecting this launch for years, but relatively little is still known about this mission. We have grown used to seeing computer-generated artwork of this small, stubby laboratory module, not much larger than the Shenzhou crew-carrying spacecraft that will dock with it. China Central Television has also broadcast short video ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2010The Kuwait Air Defense Forces successfully test fired Raytheon Company's Patriot Air and Missile Defense System against tactical ballistic missiles. The test firings were held last month at the Udairi Range in Kuwait in conjunction with other Kuwait Air Defense and Land Forces elements during a joint exercise. The test firings used a Kuwait Patriot Configuration-2 Plus fire unit with Guida ... more 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 20, 2010The United States will deploy Patriot-type surface-to-air missiles in northern Poland some 60 kilometres (35 miles) from Russia's Kaliningrad territory, Poland's defence minister said Wednesday. "Morag was chosen as the location long ago, but we didn't make it public," Bogdan Klich said, quoted by Poland's PAP news agency. He insisted the choice of the site close to Kaliningrad had "no ... more  
Miami (AFP) Jan 20, 2010More than a week has gone by since a deadly earthquake devastated Haiti, and many of the hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in Florida keep phoning home, even if their calls go unanswered. "I telephone every single day, but nobody picks up on the other end," Marie Pierre, a Haitian who works at Garland, a fruit and vegetable importer and distributor in Miami, told AFP, distraught. ... more |
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