"If he thought he was going to get Israelis to believe in the possibility of an imminent agreement, that was mission impossible.
(Whenever a new mission is imminent, the Toby jug on the mantle of the officers' club is turned outward, away from the wall; "Not again," says an officer when he sees the jug's face).
And because a servicing mission is imminent, "The timing [of the gyro failure] is not so bad," Weiler notes.
The forces may lack gasoline and electricity in Kosovo, face difficult delays in their imminent and potentially dangerous Congo mission, and go unpaid in Sierra Leone, United Nations and administration officials said.
Various strategies currently being adopted to prolong the cycle life for orbiter applications, as well as, for extending their operating range down to temperatures as low as −30°C for more imminent Mars lander and rover missions are briefly discussed.
SpaceX is impacted by the ongoing U.S. government shutdown — which is bad news both for its pending Falcon Heavy test flight, as well as for its other missions, which include imminent ISS resupply and commercial satellite launches.
The telescope is in no imminent danger even if the next service mission is put off indefinitely.
Dampening hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the internally backed search mission, state department spokesperson Marie Harf said military and intelligence teams faced "a tough challenge".
While the case has thus far been unsuccessful, the imminent end of the formal US combat mission in December may change its fortunes.
