Space disaster

Apart from actual disasters, a number of missions resulted in some very near misses and also some training accidents that nearly resulted in deaths. In-flight near misses have included various reentry mishaps (in particular on Soyuz 5), the sinking of the Mercury 4 capsule, and the Voskhod 2 crew spending a night in dense forest surrounded by wolves. Additionally: 1961 April 12: separation failure: During a flight of Vostok 1, after retrofire, the Vostok service module unexpectedly remained attached to the reentry module ...

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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a methodology used to create a plan for how an organization will resume partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or disruption. BCP may be a part of a larger organizational effort to reduce operational risk associated with poor information security controls, and thus has a number of overlaps with the practice of risk management. The International Organization for Standardization and the British Standards Institute set BCP best pra ...

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• Business continuity planning - Introduction
• Business continuity planning - Analysis
• Business continuity planning - Impact analysis
• Business continuity planning - Threat analysis
• Business continuity planning - Definition of impact scenarios
• Business continuity planning - Recovery requirement documentation
• Business continuity planning - Solution design
• Business continuity planning - Implementation
• Business continuity planning - Testing and organizational acceptance
• Business continuity planning - Maintenance
• Business continuity planning - Information update and testing
• Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of technical solutions
• Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures
• Business continuity planning - Treatment of test failures

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The analysis phase in the development of a BCP manual consists of an impact analysis, threat analysis, and impact scenarios with the resulting BCP plan requirement documentation. Business continuity planning - Impact analysis. An impact analysis results in the differentiation between critical and non-critical organization functions. A function may be considered critical if the implications for stakeholders of damage to the organization resulting are regarded as unacceptable. Perceptions of the acceptabilit ...

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A disaster (from Latin meaning, "bad star") is the impact of a natural or man-made event that negatively affects life, property, livelihood or industry often resulting in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. (It may be noted that event itself is not a disaster, it is the impact which is called disaster.) Disasters manifest as hazards exacerbating vulnerable conditions and exceeding individuals' and communities' means to survive and thrive. Most events included herein are compiled from United States Federal Emergency Management Age ...

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• Disaster - Natural disasters
• Disaster - Avalanche
• Disaster - Cold
• Disaster - Disease
• Disaster - Drought
• Disaster - Earthquake
• Disaster - Famine
• Disaster - Fire
• Disaster - Flood
• Disaster - Hail
• Disaster - Heat
• Disaster - Hurricane
• Disaster - Impact event
• Disaster - Limnic eruption
• Disaster - Landslide
• Disaster - Mudslide
• Disaster - Sink hole
• Disaster - Solar flare
• Disaster - Storm surge
• Disaster - Thunderstorm
• Disaster - Tornado
• Disaster - Tsunami
• Disaster - Volcanic eruption
• Disaster - Waterspout
• Disaster - Winter storm
• Disaster - Man-made disasters
• Disaster - Aviation
• Disaster - Arson
• Disaster - CBRNs
• Disaster - Civil disorder
• Disaster - Crime
• Disaster - Data loss
• Disaster - Dam failure
• Disaster - Hazardous materials
• Disaster - Processing interruption
• Disaster - Liquidity shortage
• Disaster - Power outage
• Disaster - Public relations crisis
• Disaster - Radiation Contamination
• Disaster - Space Disasters
• Disaster - Telecommunication outage
• Disaster - Terrorism
• Disaster - War
• Disaster - Surviving a disaster
• Disaster - Personal and family disaster preparation
• Disaster - Local government and emergency services disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - Business disaster preparation and management
• Disaster - National disaster preparation
• Disaster - Humanitarian disaster preparation
• Disaster - Information security disaster preparation

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BCP methodology is scalable for an organization of any size and complexity. Even though the methodology has roots in regulated industries, any type of organization may create a BCP manual, and arguably every organization should have one in order to ensure the organization's longevity. Evidence that firms do not invest enough time and resources into BCP preparations are evident in disaster survival statistics. Fires permanently close 44% of the business affected [2]. In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 150 businesses out of 350 aff ...

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Business continuity planning, Business continuity planning - Introduction, Business continuity planning - Analysis, Business continuity planning - Impact analysis, Business continuity planning - Threat analysis, Business continuity planning - Definition of impact scenarios, Business continuity planning - Recovery requirement documentation, Business continuity planning - Solution design, Business continuity planning - Implementation, Business continuity planning - Testing and organizational acceptance, Business continuity planning - Maintenance, Business continuity planning - Information update and testing, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of technical solutions, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures, Business continuity planning - Treatment of test failures

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Maintenance of a BCP manual is broken down into three periodic activities. The first activity is the confirmation of information in the manual. The second activity is the testing and verification of technical solutions established for recovery operations. The third activity is the testing and verification of documented organization recovery procedures. A biannual or annual maintenance cycle is typical. Business ...

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Business continuity planning, Business continuity planning - Introduction, Business continuity planning - Analysis, Business continuity planning - Impact analysis, Business continuity planning - Threat analysis, Business continuity planning - Definition of impact scenarios, Business continuity planning - Recovery requirement documentation, Business continuity planning - Solution design, Business continuity planning - Implementation, Business continuity planning - Testing and organizational acceptance, Business continuity planning - Maintenance, Business continuity planning - Information update and testing, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of technical solutions, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures, Business continuity planning - Treatment of test failures

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The goal of the solution design phase is to identify the most cost effective disaster recovery solution that meets two main requirements from the impact analysis stage. For IT applications, this is commonly expressed as: The minimum application and application data requirements The time frame in which the minimum application and application data must be available Disaster recovery plans may also be required outside the IT applications domain, for example in preservation of information in hard copy format, ...

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Business continuity planning, Business continuity planning - Introduction, Business continuity planning - Analysis, Business continuity planning - Impact analysis, Business continuity planning - Threat analysis, Business continuity planning - Definition of impact scenarios, Business continuity planning - Recovery requirement documentation, Business continuity planning - Solution design, Business continuity planning - Implementation, Business continuity planning - Testing and organizational acceptance, Business continuity planning - Maintenance, Business continuity planning - Information update and testing, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of technical solutions, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures, Business continuity planning - Treatment of test failures

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The purpose of testing is to achieve organizational acceptance that the business continuity solution satisfies the organization's recovery requirements. Plans may fail to meet expectations due to insufficient or inaccurate recovery requirements, solution design flaws, or solution implementation errors. Testing may include: Crisis command team call-out testing Technical swing test from primary to secondary work locations Technical swing test from secondary to ...

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Business continuity planning, Business continuity planning - Introduction, Business continuity planning - Analysis, Business continuity planning - Impact analysis, Business continuity planning - Threat analysis, Business continuity planning - Definition of impact scenarios, Business continuity planning - Recovery requirement documentation, Business continuity planning - Solution design, Business continuity planning - Implementation, Business continuity planning - Testing and organizational acceptance, Business continuity planning - Maintenance, Business continuity planning - Information update and testing, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of technical solutions, Business continuity planning - Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures, Business continuity planning - Treatment of test failures

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A Natural phenomenon can easily cause a natural disaster. Appearing to arise without direct human involvement, natural disasters are sometimes called an act of God. A natural disaster may become more severe because of human actions prior, during or after the disaster itself. A specific disaster may spawn different types of events and may reduce the survivability of the initial event. A classic example, is an earthquake that collapses homes, trapping people and breaking gas mains that then ignite, and burn people alive while trapped under deb ...

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Disasters having an element of human intent, negligence, error or involving a failure of a system are called man-made disasters. Man-made disasters like power or telecommunication outages may be caused by thunderstorms, tornados or earthquakes and though the root cause is a natural phenomenon, they are considered to be man-made disasters. Disaster - Aviation. Main articles: Accidents and incidents in aviationSee also:

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Chances of survival after a disaster are greatly improved when people, local governments and emergency services, businesses and national governments prepare survival plans and assemble survival gear beforehand. What constitutes sufficient preparation is highly dependent on the location and the disasters that are likely to occur in the area. Disaster - Personal and family disaster preparation. People and families should make an assessment the likely threats in their location and prepare emergency supply kits, learn bas ...

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Disaster, Disaster - Natural disasters, Disaster - Avalanche, Disaster - Cold, Disaster - Disease, Disaster - Drought, Disaster - Earthquake, Disaster - Famine, Disaster - Fire, Disaster - Flood, Disaster - Hail, Disaster - Heat, Disaster - Hurricane, Disaster - Impact event, Disaster - Limnic eruption, Disaster - Landslide, Disaster - Mudslide, Disaster - Sink hole, Disaster - Solar flare, Disaster - Storm surge, Disaster - Thunderstorm, Disaster - Tornado, Disaster - Tsunami, Disaster - Volcanic eruption, Disaster - Waterspout, Disaster - Winter storm, Disaster - Man-made disasters, Disaster - Aviation, Disaster - Arson, Disaster - CBRNs, Disaster - Civil disorder, Disaster - Power outage, Disaster - Public relations crisis, Disaster - Radiation Contamination, Disaster - Space Disasters, Disaster - Telecommunication outage, Disaster - Terrorism, Disaster - War, Disaster - Surviving a disaster, Disaster - Personal and family disaster preparation, Disaster - Local government and emergency services disaster preparation and management, Disaster - Business disaster preparation and management, Disaster - National disaster preparation, Disaster - Humanitarian disaster preparation, Disaster - Information security disaster preparation

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The history of space exploration has been marred by a number of tragedies that resulted in the deaths of the astronauts or ground crew. As of 2004, in-flight accidents had killed 18 astronauts, training accidents had claimed at least 11 astronauts and launchpad accidents had killed at least 70 ground crew. Only the crew of Soyuz 11 died in space. About 2% of the manned launch/reentry attempts have killed their crew, with Soyuz and the Shuttle having almost the same death rates. Except for the X-15 (which is a suborbital rocket ...

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Space disaster, Space disaster - Astronaut fatalities, Space disaster - In-flight accidents, Space disaster - Training accidents, Space disaster - Near misses, Space disaster - Ground crew fatalities, Space disaster - Other accidents, Space disaster - Fatal accidents in which ground personnel were killed

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