Aside from the question of India's $3-trillion debt to Russia, the Jan. 25-26 visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin will include a proposal for the two countries to add six satellites to Glonass, the Russian Satellite navigation system. Three are to be Russian and three Indian, built under a technology transfer agreement. At least one will be launched using India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Barbara Higgins has been named vice president-customer experience and Dave Myrick vice president-sales for the Americas for United Airlines. Higgins was vice president-operations planning and integration for Disneyland Resort Paris. Myrick was managing director of sales for the Western U.S.
The Planetary Society is offering a $50,000 prize for the best design of a mission to "tag" a potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid with a tracking beacon. The "Apophis Mission Design Competition" aims at a concept for planting a radio beacon on the 400-meter-dia. asteroid that will fly within about 20,000 mi. of Earth in 2029. Tagging may be necessary to track this or other asteroids accurately enough to determine whether they will impact Earth, making it easier to decide whether to mount a deflection mission to alter their orbits.
Harvey Bazaar has joined the board of directors of CPI Aerostructures Inc., Edgewood, N.Y. He is retired global and Americas leader for the Capital Markets Group of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. CPI's founder and chairman emeritus, Arthur August, has retired.
The Air Force may not like being in a sole-source arrangement with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for Predator UAVs, but it isn't willing to cut the contractor off. During a recent budget drill at the Pentagon, senior civilian leaders sliced as much as $500 million from the 2008-13 Predator account. Pentagon sources suggest the Air Force quickly found more money and refunded the program. What remains to be seen is whether this effort was simply a drill, or whether the new Predator funds were extracted from one or more USAF intelligence programs.
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