Thursday (5-03) Arianespace is set to launch, a Ariane 5 ECA (v.176) with ASTRA 1L for SES ASTRA and Galaxy 17 for Intelsat, from ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana, South America.
Launch is set for 6:29 p.m. EDT. with a window extending to 7:13 p.m. EDT. Spacecraft separation for ASTRA 1L is expected 27 minutes after lift off and 32 minutes after liftoff for Galaxy 17 . ASTRA 1L, is a A2100 AX platform,. built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems with 29 Ku-band active transponders and 2 Ka-band active transponders providing high-power satellite services across Europe. ASTRA 1L will be located at 19.2° East. Galaxy 17 is a Spacebus 3000 B3 platform built by Thales Alenia Space, has 24 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders, providing television and telephony services for North America.Galaxy 17 will be located at 91° West or 99° West. DVB Broadcast coverage: Galaxy-3 at 95.0°W transponder 22C (4126.5 V) SR: 6.1113 Broadcast starts around 6:09 p.m. EDT. 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/v176/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 ET. on: RFD, W0KIE Satellite Radio Network Galaxy-26 (Telstar 6) @93° W - Transponder 1 / 6.2 & 6.8Mhz (4DTV T6-999) also via Digicipher on AMC 3 @87° W - Transponder 7 4DTV (DSR-922) W3 958 (Stereo) - 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/ **In Loving Memory of Mom (Dishnut Gerry)** _______________________________________________ Wildfeeds mailing list [email protected] http://twiar.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfeeds_twiar.org Send unsubscribe request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at http://twiar.org/pipermail/wildfeeds_twiar.org
