Astra 1K Update

The Cigarette Smoking Man

Here's an update on the Astra 1K Satellite that failed to reach it's orbit earlier this week:

Following the failure of the Proton launch vehicle to place ASTRA 1K, the
fourteenth satellite in the ASTRA series, into the correct orbit on November
26th, 2002, the technical teams of SES ASTRA, Alcatel Space, CNES and NORAD
have succeeded in stabilising the spacecraft in a circular orbit at an
altitude of 290 km, where it can be safely sustained to allow the
engineering teams to assess the status of the satellite and appropriate
actions in due course.

Also Ariane are having a launch tonight too - the launch window is 22.21 to 23.04. I'm sure it'll be on one of the usual feeds on 12.5w or 21w...

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2002/1128/breaking30.htm

You can watch the launch on the internet tonight:

http://www.streamingbox.com/arianespace/v2/launcher.php?langue=en

chernobyl

Let it burn, claim the cash.

watty

Or, indeed if you watched last night Hotbird 7 on Ariane went

* Phust...*

As the blue touch paper fell off.

At least the two satellites to be launched are still on the ground, in one piece!

The Cigarette Smoking Man

Pretty bad alright - the guy that was yapping away would put you into a coma too. It was on 13E last night, I presume it'll be there again during the next launch window too:

13E - 11179 H 27500 3/4

http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_index.html

The Cigarette Smoking Man

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2565387.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/38580000/rm/_38580223_ariane05_franks_vi.ram

watty

What was that Film were the aliens were sabotaging all the envirnmental satellites so no-one would realise Earth was being climate transformed to suit the Aliens?

That's two major failures from two different launch vechiles inside a month.

Or is it Boeing plot?

telecinesk

No,
Its the bloke who sold us to the aliens out of V.. Brian Dennehy, he caused it to go bang.
I have to admit I did laugh..