Friday night (2-24) Arianespace will attempt again, after a scrub Tuesday night, to kick off 2006 with the first launch of a Ariane 5 ECA rocket (v.170)with SPAINSAT for Hisdesat and HOT BIRD 7A for Eutelsat, from ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana, South America.
Tuesday nights scrub was caused by an anomaly with ground support equipment used to prepare the launcher that required return to the Final Assembly Building 2.8-km away from the launch zone for replacement of the faulty component. The Ariane 5 ECA was returned to the launch zone Thursday morning. Launch is set for 5:11 p.m. EST. with a window extending to 6:21 p.m. EST. Spacecraft separation for SPAINSAT is expected 27 minutes after lift off and 32 minutes after liftoff for HOT BIRD 7A. Spainsat, built by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, will have 13 X-band transponders and one Ka-band transponders dedicated to secure Spanish government communications. It will be positioned at 30 degrees West, over the Atlantic, and will take over for the Secomsat military payloads on the Hispasat 1A and 1B satellites. Hot Bird 7A, built by Alcatel Alenia, will have 38 Ku-band transponders, designed to renew current capacity and also provide redundancy for the Hot Bird family of satellites at 13 degrees East serving Europe, the Middle East and North Africa with TV and radio broadcasting. Broadcast coverage: IA 8 (Telstar 8) at 89.0°W transponder 11-D5 C-Band (3915.5 V) DVB SR: 5.632 Broadcast starts around 4:45 p.m. EST. If you dont have a dish, there will be a live webcast of the launch available at: http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en Additional coverage at: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v170/status.html http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_index.html http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_launchkit_index.html -- Dishnut-P ==================================================================== Operator of RadioFree Dishnuts - Producer of The Dishnut News heard Saturdays at 10pm EST. on RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network IA-6 (T6) Transponder 1 / 6.2 & 6.8Mhz (4DTV T6-999) WTND-LP 106.3, and many micro LPFM stations. http://dishnuts.net RFD Listen Links: http://dishnuts.net/#Listen Show Archives: (Partly Up) http://dishnuts.net/archive/ Sat subcarrier and net streaming audio programming and locations: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BROADCASTFINDER/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TVRO/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
