Not good enough, says Hogan, who issued a request for proposals for an alternate measurement system in May, and says he expects to have more than 20 for consideration by mid-December.
The whole purpose of the 1986 vaccine act was to prevent the threat of sympathetic jurors from driving vaccine manufacturers out of the business, by setting up an alternate court system with scheduled damage payments.
The Post reported that a malfunction in Mir's attitude-control system also occurred in March, causing it to list until an alternate back-up system was activated.
The system will hunt for a useable alternate predefined frequency until it finds one, and temporarily take each of the unusable control channels out of service.