Russian Investigators Clear Breeze-M To Resume Flying

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In a remarkably quick end to a failure review investigation even by Russian standards, a Russian state board of inquiry announced Aug. 30 it had determined the cause of an Aug. 18failure of aProton rocket upper stage, ordered corrective actions and cleared Proton rockets to resume operations, according to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.The Proton rocket's Breeze-M upper stage placed the Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) Express-AM4 satellite into a useless orbit from which recovery would be difficult. In the days since the launch, Roscosmos has said the satellite has been unable to communicate with ground controllers.U.S. Air Force Gives Boeing SIB for More WGS SatellitesThe U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems of Seal Beach, Calif., a $1 billion contract to build a seventh Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite and to start buying parts for an eighth. The firm fixed-price contract modification, announced Sept. 2 by die Defense Department, also includes an option for a ninth WGS spacecraft.Boeing began buying long-lead parts for a seventh WGS satellite under a $182 million contract awarded in August 2010. The first three Boeing-built WGS satellites were launched between October 2007 and December 2009. A fourth is slated to launch in early 2012 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a Delta 4 rocket.Japan Appoints Furukawa Space Development MinisterNewly elected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda unveiled his Cabinet appointments Sept. 2, naming 44-year-old Mo-tohisa Furukawa as Japan's latest state minister for space development.Furukawa replaces Koichiro Gemba, who will serve as Japan's new foreign minister.Noda is Japan's fifth prime minister in six years. He was chosen by parliament Aug. 30 to replace Noato Kan, who resigned several days earlier.Furukawa will hold a total of three posts in the Noda government. In addition to space development, Furukawa will also serve as national strategy minister and state minister for economic and fiscal policy. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, Furukawa joined the Ministry of Finance in 1988, and attended Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs as a ministry official in 1993. Leaving the ministry in 1994, he took part in the formation of the Democratic Party of Japan in 1996 and was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in the same year; he is currently serving his fourth term in the House.French OK Clears Way for 2nd-gen Globalstar ServiceMobile satellite services operator Global-star has switched on its ground stations in the United States, Canada and Mexico that communicate with the company's second-generation satellites following the French government's registration of the satellites with the United Nations.Covington, La.-based Globalstar had been concerned that the certification of the second-generation system in France, which is where the constellation is registered, would not arrive until after a deadline set by Globalstar's loan covenants, backed by the French export-credit agency, Coface.As it happened, the company was able to win French Research Ministry authorization of the system two days before the Aug. 31 deadline, said L. Barbee Ponder, Globalstar's general counsel and vice president of regulatory affairs.Orbital Will Build NASA's ICESat-2 SatelliteOrbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., won a $135 million contract to build NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat-2), which among other observations will monitor polar ice levels that scientists believe to be an indicator of climate change, the space agency announced Aug. 31."The contractor will be responsible for the design and fabrication of the ICESat-2 spacecraft bus, integration of the government-furnished instrument, satellite-level testing, on-orbit satellite check-out, and continuing on-orbit engineering support," NASA said in a press release. The ICESat-2 project will be managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

机译：为了甚至以俄罗斯的标准迅速结束失效审查调查，俄罗斯国家调查委员会于8月30日宣布，已确定8月18日a质子火箭上层故障的原因，下令采取纠正措施，并清理了质子火箭以便恢复俄罗斯航天局Roscosmos称，该行动进行了运作。Proton火箭的Breeze-M高层将俄罗斯卫星通信公司（RSCC）的Express-AM4卫星送入了无用的轨道，很难恢复。罗斯科斯莫斯（Roscosmos）表示，自发射以来，这颗卫星一直无法与地面控制器通信。美国空军授予波音SIB更多WGS卫星美国空军已授予加利福尼亚州锡尔比奇的波音航天和情报系统公司一份价值10亿美元的合同，用于制造第七颗宽带全球卫星通信（WGS）通信卫星并开始为第八架购买零件。国防部9月2日宣布的固定价格合同修正案还包括第9枚WGS航天器的选择权。波音公司根据2010年8月授予的1.82亿美元合同，开始为第7枚WGS卫星购买长铅零件。波音公司制造的前三枚WGS卫星在2007年10月至2009年12月之间发射。第四枚定于2012年初从卡纳维拉尔角空军基地的Delta 4火箭发射。日本任命古河航天开发大臣新当选日本首相野田佳彦揭幕他的内阁任命于9月2日，任命现年44岁的古川本久（Mo-tohisa Furukawa）为日本最新的太空发展国务大臣，古川将取代现任日本新任外相的金一郎（Koichiro Gemba），野田佳彦则是日本六年来的第五任总理。 8月30日，他被国会选举接替几天前辞职的野ato直人。古川将在野田政府中担任三职。除了空间开发，古河还将担任国家战略部长和经济与财政政策国家部长。古川大学毕业于东京大学，于1988年加入财政部，并于1993年作为政府部门官员进入哥伦比亚大学国际与公共事务学院。1994年离开该部门，他参加了民主党的成立1996年成为日本首相，同年首次当选为众议院议员；他目前正在众议院中任职。法国OK为第二代Globalstar Service开辟了道路移动卫星服务运营商Global-star已接通其在美国，加拿大和墨西哥的与该公司第二代卫星通信的地面站在法国政府向联合国注册卫星之后，总部位于洛杉矶科芬顿的Globalstar一直担心法国的第二代系统（即已注册星座的国家）的认证要到最后期限之后才能到来Globalstar的L. Barbee Ponder说，这是由Globalstar的贷款契约设定的，并得到了法国出口信贷机构Coface的支持。碰巧的是，该公司能够在8月31日截止日期的前两天赢得法国研究部对该系统的授权。轨道将建造美国宇航局的ICESat-2卫星轨道科学公司，弗吉尼亚州杜勒斯，赢得了135万美元的奖金美国宇航局在8月31日宣布，该公司与美国宇航局签订了建造冰，云和陆地高程卫星（ICESat-2）的合同，该合同将监测极地冰面，科学家认为这是气候变化的指标。将负责ICESat-2航天器总线的设计和制造，政府提供的仪器的集成，卫星级测试，在轨卫星检出以及持续的在轨工程支持。”新闻稿。 ICESat-2项目将由马里兰州格林贝尔特的戈达德太空飞行中心管理。

Russian Investigators Clear Breeze-M To Resume Flying

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