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Technical glitches keep coast guard satellite grounded.(SECURITY BEAT: HOMELAND DEFENSE BRIEFS)
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National Defense
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June 1, 2008
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* An experimental Coast Guard surveillance payload that was scheduled for launch aboard a commercial satellite at the End of 2007 has been delayed twice because of several technical problems, the Coast Guard said.
The demonstration payload, which was built and scheduled to be launched aboard a Cosmos rocket by ORBCOMM Inc. of Fort Lee, N.J., was designed to collect ship data from space and transmit them to ground stations.
But two significant technical issues delayed the launch to April of this year and most recently to mid-August, said Cmdr. Keith Ingalsbe, project manager for the Coast Guard's nationwide automatic identification system, or NAIS, which was created to ...