Spaceflight now reports that, the new atlas 5 rocket was launched into orbit at 6:05 pm EDT. It was launching the hotbird 6 geo satellite. The centaur upper stage is 3.05 m (10 ft ) in width and 12.68 m ( 41.6 ft ) in length. So something new in orbit to look at. Tommorow at 1:15 am EDT a proton rocket is scheduled to blast off with echostar 8 geo sat. The block DM stage used to put the satelllite in geo transfer orbit is 3.7 m in width , 6.28 m in length. Kevin _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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