> OCEAN-GOING MOBILE SPACE PORT > In a test launch that is expected to provide the "proof of the system," the > Sea Launch Company of Long Beach, California will in a few weeks send to sea > a self-propelled platform and accompanying command ship that will carry a > 10,000-pound dummy version of a telecom satellite into space from equatorial > waters 1,400 miles south of Hawaii. The project is intended to offer > communications and space companies greater speed and flexibility in > launching satellites. (San Jose Mercury News 10 Mar 99) I have been unable to locate the complete article in the online San Jose Mercury News or any other recent mention of this by other news services. --Sue Worden (worden@uts.cc.utexas.edu)