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Kazakhstan Wants Right To Ban Rocket Launches Over Its Territory
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Sep 10, 2007 Kazakhstan wants the right to ban rocket launches from its Baikonur space center, which Russia rents, in situations where the Kazakh president is located near the launch, the prime minister said. The Kazakh premier's announcement follows Thursday's crash of a Russian Proton-M rocket with a Japanese communications satellite on board shortly after launch. "If the president is on a visit, and a rocket is being launched, then we should have the right to stop everything immediately," Prime Minister Karim Masimov said Friday. The Proton-M rocket, which was launched from the Baikonur space center at 2:43 a.m. Thursday Moscow time (10:43 p.m. GMT Wednesday), experienced an engine malfunction and second-stage separation failure 139 seconds into its flight, and came down in the central Kazakh steppe, 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan. "How could we allow a Proton rocket to fall 80 kilometers from Zhezkazgan, if the head of state is located there at that moment?" Masimov said. The premier has ordered Deputy Prime Minister Umirzak Shukeyev to agree on a solution to the problem with President Nursultan Nazarbayev's guard service, the national security committee, and other bodies. Possible environmental contamination from the booster's highly toxic fuel is a particular concern, and a team has been sent to the crash site to determine the extent of any pollution.
related report The two countries reached agreements on boosting space science cooperation on the sidelines of Ukraine's and Russia's economic cooperation committee meeting Wednesday and Thursday in the Crimean Republic, south of Ukraine, Mitrahof said. During the meeting, the two countries discussed the feasibility of using Ukrainian technology in a Russian research project to explore the Moon and Mars. The two sides will also jointly build the ground infrastructure for a global satellite navigation system covering Ukraine, Russia and parts of Europe for the 2012 Ukraine European Football Championship and the 2014 Russia Winter Olympic Games, Mitrahof added. Ukraine and Russia also decided to resume regular meetings between the two countries' aeronautics and space departments and academies of science.
Source: RIA Novosti
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Space Experts Meet To Address Warfighter Needs
Peterson AFB CO (AFNS) Sep 04, 2007More than 70 senior leaders and experts from across the Services, joint agencies and Intelligence Community came together Aug. 28 at Headquarters Air Force Space Command to discuss the way ahead for Operationally Responsive Space. The objective -- a clearly defined joint process for identifying and developing ORS requirements and capabilities; how they are integrated and deconflicted; and ways to create, follow and use common standards. |
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