Saturday, March 27, 1999 Update for 9:33 p.m. EST T+plus 1 hour, 3 minutes. Spacecraft separation. The inaugural flight of Sea Launch has deployed the simulation satellite cargo into a geostationary transfer orbit around the Earth. This was the major objective today - to demonstrate the capability for Sea Launch to delivered commercial satellites into space. The DemoSat spacecraft, built by Boeing Commercial Space Company, was designed to simulate the properties and mass of Galaxy 11, a PanAmSat communications satellite originally scheduled to fly aboard this first Sea Launch mission. Although just a mockup, DemoSat does feature more than 130 sensors to gather data on the environments future Sea Launch payloads will face. The last significant events today will be conducted over the next couple of hours to vent and safe the Block DM-SL upper stage. The spent stage will also be positioned for reentry into the atmosphere. Nothing on OIG yet.