Volume X - Issue VII - July 2008
Fascinating Projects
Discovery heads for International Space Station to deliver Japanese Laboratory module and Toilet repairs The space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the USA at 5:02 p.m. EDT (22:02 GMT) Saturday, 31 May, to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station and to deliver repair parts for the main toilet on the Space Station.  The mission, designated STS-124, is the second of three flights to launch components to complete the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Discovery is carrying Kibo's tour bus-sized Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM, which will be the station's largest module. The shuttle astronauts will work with the three-member station crew and ground teams around the world to install the JPM and Kibo's robotic arm system. The Discovery will also deliver a new pump to repair the space station's toilet in the Zvezda service module, which failed last week. Since the urinal side of the toilet failed, the ISS crew have had to flush the unit manually - an operation that takes two people about 10 minutes to do. The solid-waste part of the Russian-built toilet is working properly. A replacement pump was rushed from Russia to be loaded on to Discovery for delivery to the ISS.  Shortly before launch, Commander Mark Kelly (pictured) thanked the teams that helped make the launch possible. "We're going to deliver Kibo, or hope, to the space station," Kelly said. "And while we tend to live for today, the discoveries from Kibo will certainly offer hope for tomorrow."
 Other crew members on Discovery's 14-day flight are Pilot Ken Ham and Mission Specialists Karen Nyberg, Ron Garan, Mike Fossum, Greg Chamitoff and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. Garan and Fossum will conduct three spacewalks during the mission. Chamitoff will replace current station crew member Garrett Reisman, who has lived on the outpost since mid-March. Chamitoff will return to Earth on Endeavour's STS-126 mission, targeted for Nov. 10. NASA is providing continuous television and Internet coverage of Discovery's mission, which is the 123rd shuttle flight, the 35th for Discovery and the 26th shuttle mission to the station. NASA Television features live mission events, daily mission status news conferences and 24-hour commentary. NASA TV is webcast at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv. NASA's Web coverage of STS-124 includes current mission information, interactive features, and news conference images, graphics and videos. Mission coverage, including the latest NASA TV schedule, also is available on the main space shuttle Web site at: http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. New Australia - USA submarine cable lands in Sydney Telstra and Alcatel-Lucent have demonstrated a new 9,000 kilometre submarine cable that will dramatically increase Internet capacity between Australia and the United States. The new cable, which will be landed at Tamarama Beach, can be scaled up to 1.28 Terabits per second capacity between the two countries. At full capacity of 1.28 Terabits per second the cable is capable of carrying 160,000 concurrent high definition television channels.  "The explosion of user-generated online content means we need more capacity than ever before with the United States, which is already the destination for two-thirds of all Australian traffic on the internet," Ms Kate McKenzie (pictured at left), Group Managing Director, Telstra Wholesale. "This cable is the largest ever built and owned by an Australian company. It’s another example of Telstra investing to ensure Australia can enjoy the health care, education and productivity benefits made possible by high-speed broadband technology," Ms McKenzie said. Alcatel-Lucent began laying the cable between Sydney and Hawaii earlier this year. Work will continue to lay the cable across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii, and the cable will be operational by end-2008. From Hawaii the cable will interconnect with the new Asia America Gateway cable and other existing cables providing direct access to the mainland United States.  Hilary Mine (pictured at right), Alcatel-Lucent’s Managing Director Australasia and North Asia, said this new project strengthens its enduring relationship with Telstra. "As Telstra’s wireline partner, Alcatel Lucent is delighted to celebrate this latest milestone in dramatically enhancing Australia’s communications capacity," Ms Mine said. The increased capacity means Telstra’s retail and wholesale customers will enjoy higher Internet speeds and greater security when they access information from the United States on Telstra’s Next G™ network and through BigPond, and when they use services such as telecommuting and videoconferencing an expanded range and quality of services for business customers including advanced multimedia and e-commerce applications, and more intelligent network services. Ms McKenzie said that Telstra first invested in Next G™ wireless broadband and ADSL2+ fixed broadband, and now we are investing in undersea cables to give our customers the best experience possible. "All of these investments are occurring where there are benefits for customers, and where Telstra can make a commercial return on its investment," Ms McKenzie said. Telstra Corporation Limited is Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, with one of the best known brands in the country. Telstra provides customers with a truly integrated telecommunications experience across fixed line, mobiles, broadband (BigPond®), information, transaction and search (Sensis®) and pay TV (FOXTEL®). Telstra's international businesses include CSL New World Mobility Group, one of Hong Kong's leading mobile operators; TelstraClear Limited, the second largest full service carrier in New Zealand; Reach Ltd, a provider of global connectivity and international voice and satellite services and SouFun Holdings Limited, a leading real estate and furnishings website in China. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers end-to-end solutions that enable communications for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices in Paris. For more information, visit Disaster Preparedness Project launched by Jamaica Government A sum of $1.2 million has been set aside in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure by the Jamaican Parliament for a project aimed at building disaster resilient communities. This will be done by strengthening the national and parish response capacity and developing a culture of disaster preparedness. Under the project, disaster management committees will be established, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), institutional capacity is to be increased, and a high degree of stakeholder ownership established. The project will also assess actual and likely damage by various disasters to specific vulnerable locations.  Funded by the Government ($750,000) and the Canadian International Development Agency ($450,000), the project began in February 2008 and is scheduled for completion in March 2011. For this fiscal period, it is anticipated that under the project management component, a detailed project design will be done, and a financing agreement established with CIDA. Also, a project steering committee will be set up, and a project implementation unit created to manage the project. Damage assessments, disaster modeling, and other experiments will be carried out at various sites, as well as public awareness activities. An assessment of past and potential damage to specific locations will also be conducted. Under the formation of zonal committees component, a zonal disaster response committee will be established, and training in disaster management provided. This will be in addition to a public awareness and education programme. There will be response and capacity building for 10 parishes, and a participatory process of hazard identification and mitigation planning established. In addition, the ODPEM website will be redesigned, and a virtual library established for easy retrieval of disaster management information. The Jamaica Information Service (JIS), formerly the Government Public Relations Office (GPRO), was originally established in 1956 in the Information Unit of the old Colonial Secretariat of the Government of Jamaica, under the direction of the Director of Education and Chief Information Officer. The current mission of the JIS is to inform and educate the public in Jamaica and overseas about the policies, programmes and institutions of the Government of Jamaica so as to increase awareness, understanding and support for these policies, programmes and institutions; as well as to reflect the views and concerns of the people about Government policies, programmes and institutions. For more information, visit http://jis.gov.jm/default.asp. Hill International to Manage Renovation of New York City Hall Reported by Larry Suda in New York City Hill International, a US-based global construction project management company, has been awarded a contract by the New York City Department of Design and Construction to provide construction management services during the $80 million renovation of New York City Hall. The three-year contract has a value to Hill of approximately $5.3 million.  The oldest city hall in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a designated New York City landmark and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well. The building will undergo renovations throughout the structure including exterior and roofing renovations; steps refinishing; new electrical, fire, AV and HVAC systems; elevator modernization; and complete renovation of all interior spaces. "We are honored and privileged to be managing the restoration of New York City Hall," said Hill International has 2,000 employees in 70 offices worldwide providing program management, project management, construction management and construction claims services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 10th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com. GLAST blasts into space from Florida NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT (17:05 GMT) on Wednesday, 11 May 2008.  According to NASA’s news release, the GLAST observatory successfully separated from the second stage of the Delta II, after which the flight computer immediately began powering up the components necessary to control the satellite. Twelve minutes after separating from the launch vehicle, both GLAST solar arrays were deployed and began producing the power necessary to maintain the satellite and instruments. "The entire GLAST Team is elated the observatory is now on-orbit and all systems continue to operate as planned," said GLAST program manager Kevin Grady of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. After a 75-minute flight, the GLAST spacecraft was deployed into low Earth orbit. It will begin transmitting initial instrument data after about three weeks. The telescope will explore the most extreme environments in the universe, searching for signs of new laws of physics and investigating what composes mysterious dark matter. It will seek explanations for how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed, and look for clues to crack the mysteries behind powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts. "After a 60-day checkout and initial calibration period, we'll begin science operations," said Steve Ritz, GLAST project scientist at Goddard. "GLAST soon will be telling scientists about many new objects to study, and this information will be available on the internet for the world to see." NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the U.S. For more information about the GLAST mission, please visit: http://www.nasa.gov/glast.  Created in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is America’s focal point for research, development and exploration of outer space. In 2005, the US President and Congress committed the United States to exploring the solar system and beyond: completing assembly of the International Space Station, flying the new Crew Exploration Vehicle no later than 2014, returning astronauts to the moon by the end of the next decade, and sending human missions to Mars and beyond. For over 50 years, NASA has been leading the world in the development and usage of advanced program and project management. Additional information about NASA can be found at www.nasa.gov. Petrobras and Mitsui Sign Agreement to Study Utah Oil-Shale Reported by Peter Mello in Brazil Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Brazilian oil company) has announced plans to spend $112 billion over five years to expand operations and the signing of an agreement to study the extraction of oil from shale deposits in Utah, with Mitsui & Co.  Petrobras's oil-shale extraction process uses low temperatures, has no moving parts and produces far lower carbon emissions than making oil from other alternative sources such as coal. Water isn't needed to operate or cool the process; it is a byproduct of their system, said Demarco Epifanio, the Petrobras International Unit executive responsible for the project. The technology for such exploration has been developed in Brazil for the past 30 years, but expansion of shale-oil output in Brazil has been limited by cheaper sources of oil from the country's offshore fields. Petrobras refines kerosene, fuel oil, cooking gas, and naphtha, a raw material for plastics production from shale in Brazil. Oil shale is sedimentary rock which contains significant amounts of kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds), from which one can extract liquid hydrocarbons. After mining from under the ground, synthetic crude oil is derived by thermal decomposition (retorting) from oil shale ore. Global oil shale deposits are estimated as equivalent to more than 2 trillion barrels of oil including major deposits in the United States corresponding to 70% of global deposits. Petrobras and Mitsui each have the right to as much as 20 percent of Oil Shale Exploration, the largest non-government holder of oil-shale rights in Utah. The U.S. has an estimated 2.5 trillion barrels of oil shale, more than double the world's 1 trillion barrels of conventional oil reserves, according to Daniel Elcan chief executive officer of Oil Shale Exploration. Other information may be found at: WWF Brazil launches project to protect river area Reported by Peter Mello in Brazil The World Wildlife Fund of Brazil (WWF-Brazil) and other non-profit organizations have launched on Saturday, June 7th, a project to protect the Urubu River and its surrounding areas in the Federal District of Brazil. The project counts with volunteer work of the community to achieve its goals.
WWF expects to develop recycling habits among the population and it is a pioneer environment project in this part of the country, involving around 1,000 inhabitants. In Brazil, WWF has been working in several projects all across the country with reasonable Government and local support. Other major activities includes plans to reduce to zero net deforestation of Amazon by 2020 (WWF network, World Bank and German Development Bank are donors of the ARPA – The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program) More information can be found at: Seattle transit agency seeks volunteers for Citizen Oversight Reported by Marc Zocher in Western Washington, USA Sound Transit, the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is recruiting for citizen volunteers to fill vacancies on its Citizen Oversight Panel, an independent body that is part of Sound Transit’s commitment to public accountability. Formed in 1997, the Citizen Oversight Panel monitors Sound Transit’s performance against its commitments to the public in a number of policy areas, including budget and financial management, adherence to schedules, public participation in the plan’s implementation, evaluation of project alternatives, and review of annual independent performance audits.  The agency is requesting letters of interest from citizens with specific skills or experience and who are willing to serve for a minimum of four years on the panel, which currently meets twice a month during normal business hours. Applicants must be registered voters who live within the RTA district boundary and have experience in one or more of the areas of panel responsibility, including business management, engineering, large projects construction management, public facilities and service, government processes, and public policy development or review.
Interested individuals should send one-page letters of interest with resumes highlighting their experience to: Greg Nickels, Chair The deadline for letters is Monday, June 30, 2008. Following the deadline, the members of the Sound Transit Board will receive copies of all letters and may then nominate applicant(s) for consideration. The Board’s Executive Committee will review the nominations and recommend finalists to the full Sound Transit Board of Directors for confirmation. Sound Transit actively seeks to include persons from diverse backgrounds and professional areas of expertise to support agency oversight, planning and operations. Persons of color and women are encouraged to submit letters of interest. For more information, visit http://www.soundtransit.org/x1236.xml. Sound Transit, the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is the public transportation agency responsible for implementing Sound Move, a long range regional transportation improvement program approved by voters of Washington State and adopted by the Sound Transit Board in May 1996. Sound Move includes a mix of transportation improvements: Sounder commuter rail, Link light rail, new transit centers, park-and-ride lots and high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) access projects. Sound Transit updated the Long-Range Plan in 2005, and over the past two years worked extensively with the public to identify the projects and services included in Sound Transit 2, the next phase of the Long-Range Plan, which was adopted by the Board in May 2007. Sound Transit is managing hundreds of projects; the 1996 – 2016 lifetime capital budget is approximately $6.9 billion. Space shuttle Discovery lands safely after another Space shuttle Discovery and its crew landed at 11:15 a.m. EDT Saturday, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida completing a 14-day journey of more than 5.7 million miles in space.  The STS-124 mission was the second of three flights to launch components to the International Space Station to complete the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Discovery delivered Kibo's tour bus-sized Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM, which is the station's largest module. The mission included three spacewalks to install and outfit the JPM and activate its robotic arm system. The lab's logistics module, which was delivered and installed in a temporary location in March, was attached to its permanent position on top of the JPM. Mark Kelly commanded the flight and was joined by Pilot Ken Ham, Mission Specialists Karen Nyberg, Ron Garan, Mike Fossum, Greg Chamitoff, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. Chamitoff remained aboard the space station, replacing Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman, who returned to Earth on Discovery after nearly three months on the station. Chamitoff will return on shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission, targeted for launch November 10. STS-124 was the 123rd space shuttle flight, the 35th flight for shuttle Discovery and the 26th flight of a shuttle to the station. With Discovery and its crew safely home, the stage is set for the launch of STS-125 on October 8. For more about the STS-124 mission and the upcoming STS-125 mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle.
Created in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is America’s focal point for research, development and exploration of outer space. In 2005, the US President and Congress committed the United States to exploring the solar system and beyond: completing assembly of the International Space Station, flying the new Crew Exploration Vehicle no later than 2014, returning astronauts to the moon by the end of the next decade, and sending human missions to Mars and beyond. For over 50 years, NASA has been leading the world in the development and usage of advanced program and project management. Additional information about NASA can be found at www.nasa.gov. Jason 2 - International Project Team launches important A new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite has been successfully launched from California, on a globe-circling voyage to continue charting sea level, a vital indicator of global climate change. The mission will return new data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts.  With a thunderous roar and fiery glow, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 satellite arced through the blackness of an early central coastal California morning at 12:46 a.m. PDT on June 20, climbing into space atop a Delta II rocket. "Sea-level measurements from space have come of age," said Michael Freilich, director of the Earth Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. "Precision measurements from this mission will improve our knowledge of global and regional sea-level changes and enable more accurate weather, ocean and climate forecasts." Measurements of sea-surface height, or ocean surface topography, reveal the speed and direction of ocean currents and tell scientists how much of the sun's energy is stored by the ocean. Combining ocean current and heat storage data is key to understanding global climate variations. OSTM/Jason 2's expected lifetime of at least three years will extend into the next decade the continuous record of these data started in 1992 by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, or CNES, with the TOPEX/Poseidon mission. The data collection was continued by the two agencies on Jason 1 in 2001. The mission culminates more than three decades of research by NASA and CNES in this field. This expertise will be passed on to the world's weather and environmental forecasting agencies, which will be responsible for collecting the data. The involvement of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) as mission partners on OSTM/Jason 2 helps establish this proven research capability as a valuable tool for use in everyday applications.  OSTM/Jason 2's five primary instruments will allow scientists to monitor conditions in ocean coastal regions -- home to about half of Earth's population. OSTM/Jason 2 will have substantially increased accuracy and provide data to within 15 miles of coastlines, nearly 50 percent closer to shore than in the past. Such improvements will be welcome news for all those making their living on the sea, from sailors and fishermen to workers in offshore industries. Projects funded for Environmental Clean-up in Azerbaijan World Bank has announced funding approval of $164 million for three projects under the Absheron Rehabilitation Program (ARP) to improve the environmental situation in Absheron Peninsula, home to many in the Republic of Azerbaijan. These projects will help rehabilitate land polluted by onshore oil production in Absheron, clean and safely dispose radioactive waste from defunct iodine enterprises, and improve management of solid waste in the Baku metropolitan area.  "These three projects are a part of a historical effort Azerbaijan is undertaking to improve the ecological situation of the Absheron Pennisula, and particularly to bring ecological conditions in Baku to European standards. The World Bank is very honored to participate in this effort,” says Gregory Jedrzejczak, Country Manager for Azerbaijan. Most of Azerbaijan’s industrial potential is concentrated in the Absheron Peninsula, which also is one of the oldest oil producing regions in the world. Decades of industrial operations without proper care for the environment have left about 30,000 hectares of land in the peninsula polluted by oil products and various industrial waste. Moreover, the weak solid waste management system is unable to collect and dispose of any more than 60 percent of solid waste produced in the area. These factors pose serious health risks, and limit expansion of two major cities situated in the peninsula – Baku and Sumgayit, as they are ringed by the polluted zones.  "The Absheron Environmental Program is one of the most comprehensive and ambitious environmental rehabilitation programs in the region and these three projects are part of series of projects being developed by the government to address multiple environmental concerns in the greater Baku area,” said Aniruddha Dasgupta, the leader of the team that worked on the three projects,.
These three projects represent the first phase of the Absheron Environmental Program to address the most urgent environmental concerns in Absheron. A substantial portion of these projects will be devoted to building long-term local capacity in the country to deal with complex environmental issues, ensure interagency coordination and raise public awareness. Azerbaijan joined the World Bank in 1992. Since then, commitments to the country total approximately US$ 2 323,7 million for 45 operations. For more information about the World Bank's work in Azerbaijan, visit www.worldbank.org.az
How Space Science Projects get started - NASA selects Small Explorer investigations for concept studies NASA has announced that six candidate mission proposals have been selected for further evaluation as part of the agency's Small Explorer (SMEX) Program. The proposals will study the far reaches of the universe, including the Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere, the sun, black holes, the first stars, and Earthlike planets around nearby stars. Following detailed mission concept studies, NASA intends to select two of the mission proposals in the spring of 2009 for full development as SMEX missions. The first mission could launch by 2012. Both will launch by 2015. Mission costs will be capped at $105 million each, excluding the launch vehicle. The selected proposals were judged to have the best science value among 32 compliant SMEX proposals submitted to NASA in January 2008. Each will receive $750,000 to conduct a six-month implementation feasibility study.  (Photo: example from NASA’s GALEX project: the birth of stars - the outlying regions around the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, highlighted in composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array in New Mexico.) "We received many excellent proposals," said Charles Gay, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, "The six we selected for further study offer outstanding science in a small satellite mission." The selected proposals are:
NASA also received 17 Mission of Opportunity proposals for consideration and will schedule an evaluation board at a later date. The proposals are vying to be the 12th and 13th Small Explorer missions selected for full development. The Explorer program is designed to provide frequent, low-cost access to space for heliophysics and astrophysics missions with small to mid-sized spacecraft. The program is managed by Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. For more information about the Explorer Program on the Internet, visit: http://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov.  Created in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is America’s focal point for research, development and exploration of outer space. In 2005, the US President and Congress committed the United States to exploring the solar system and beyond: completing assembly of the International Space Station, flying the new Crew Exploration Vehicle no later than 2014, returning astronauts to the moon by the end of the next decade, and sending human missions to Mars and beyond. For over 50 years, NASA has been leading the world in the development and usage of advanced program and project management. Additional information about NASA can be found at www.nasa.gov. DOE Selects CH2M HILL to Lead Cleanup Effort at Hanford Site Reported by Marc Zocher in Western Washington, USA The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that CH2M HILL LLC, a global full-service engineering, procurement, construction, and operations firm, has been selected to lead the $4.5 billion Plateau Remediation Contract (PRC). The contract will cover ten years (five-year base period with the option to extend it for another five years). The PRC is a multi-year project focusing on the safe, environmental cleanup of the Central Plateau of DOE's Hanford Site.  "I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the local Department of Energy leadership, Washington delegation, local regulators and other stakeholders to make this project a world-class success," said CH2M HILL Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ralph Peterson (pictured). "We have assembled a management team with unmatched capability that will do everything possible to deliver results that are protective of the environment and the Columbia Basin." The scope of work includes treatment and disposal of various radioactive waste streams, groundwater, management of spent nuclear fuel, disposal or disposition of nuclear materials, demolition of non-reactor nuclear facilities and environmental remediation activities currently funded through DOE's Office of Environmental Management. CH2M HILL will serve as a prime contractor, working with several major subcontractors, including Fluor and AREVA. The company plans to work with pre-qualified small businesses to meet aggressive cleanup milestones, which has been a key component of the company's success in Washington State as well as Rocky Flats, Mound, and Idaho.  Headquartered in Denver, Colo., employee-owned
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