File size of daily orbital parameters distributed from the NASA space-track website. This is proportional to the number of satellites tracked each day, or at least listed as tracked each day. I’ve been trying to recall all the space-derived information the US government provides to the world for free. The reason I’ve been thinking about …
IAEA Official Disputes The Box
by | 2009-01-08 | 52 Comments
Friend of Wonk, Mark Fitzpatrick, pointed me in the direction of an interview on Egyptian TV with, Yousry Abushady, a section head in the IAEA Department of Safeguards, about the alleged Syrian reactor. Part 2 can be found here. Speaking in his “personal capacity”, Abushady disputes that the BoE was a Magnox reactor. In part …
Hibbs on Pakistan and Israel
by | 2009-01-06 | 4 Comments
New Year’s resolution: Get back to blogging regularly. There were a couple of stories that I blogged about towards the end of last year—potential nuclear sales to Pakistan and Israel—that I had been meaning to follow up on but never got around to in the debris that was the end of 2008. For some of …
Little Lost Satellite(s)
by | 2009-01-04 | 6 Comments
It appears that six European satellites have gone missing from the NORAD tracking catalog. All are in highly elliptical orbit and, historically, were “tracked” once each orbit, which in the case of the four Cluster II satellites (used to keep track of solar weather) about once every 2.4 days. The last updates to their orbital …
