[CPEO-MEF] ROCKETS, GLOBAL: Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle debris

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Marshall Islanders worried about hypersonic jet debris

Radio Australia
August 17, 2011

We've all heard it - "faster than a speeding bullet" - well that  
concept has now gone beyond superman and comic book/tv fiction to  
reality.

The US has experimented with an aircraft - Falcon Hypersonic  
Technology Vehicle 2 - at its top speed it could travel the 17,000  
kilometres between London and Sydney in about 49 minutes. Last week  
the glider went out of control and came down somewhere in the  
vicinity of Marshall Islands where a Minuteman missile warhead blew  
it up on re-entry over Marshall Islands. It raises many safety issues  
for Marshall Islands.

Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands correspondent

JOHNSON: People in the Marshall Islands know very little other than  
what is publicly released by the Defence Department on these aborted  
tests and interestingly on the Minuteman missile re-entry vehicle.  
It's a dummy warhead that they target on Kwajalein Atoll on the  
Marshall Islands. It said that it was blown up northeast of Kwajalein  
Atoll. Well the interesting thing if you look at a map northeast of  
Kwajalein Atoll, there's a bunch of inhabited islands, so we haven't  
heard anything more the defence department, people are asking  
questions, but it's a concern as people start to hear about more of  
these missions being aborted near the Marshall Islands.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201108/s3295273.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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