SpaceDaily Express - Weekend Edition Sept 25

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September 25, 1999
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TODAY'S HEADLINES
+ Ariane Lofts US TV Sat
+ Ikonos Launched Successfully
+ Proton Readies For Intersputnik
+ Search For MCO Canceled
+ Defense Targets the Future
+ Japan To Use US Spy Tech
+ Russia Returns Foton 12 Capsule
+ Oceans Running Hot and Cold
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LAUNCHER

Ariane Lofts US TV Sat
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/ariane-99n.html
Kourou - September 25, 1999 - An Ariane 44LP
has successfully launched the Telstar 7
digital TV satellite for Loral Skynet at
3:29am local time (2.29am EDT).

Ikonos Launched Successfully
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/ikonos-99c.html
Vandenberg - September 24, 1999 - Lockheed Martin
has launched an Athena 2 with Space Imaging's new
high resolution EO sat Ikonos onboard. Launch was
at 11:21am PDT. Ikonos will have an operational
altitude of 680 kms ensuring a wide field of view
to capture large quantities of data quickly

Proton Readies For Intersputnik
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/proton-99h.html
Baikonur - September 25, 1999 - Final preparations
are underway for a Proton launch Sept 27 at 4.30am
local time (6:30pm EDT Sept 26). Onboard will be
the Lockheed Martin Intersputnik geo bird. The
launch window is 10 minutes long.

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EARTH INVADES MARS

Search For MCO Canceled
(no story link) 
Pasadena - September 24, 1999 - JPL officially
ended the search for Mars Climate Orbiter at
3 pm PDT September 24 following extensive sky
surveys via the DSN's 70-meter dishes in an
attempt to regain contact with the spacecraft.
An unofficial search will continue to 9pm PDT
via Gladstone DSN. JPL estimates the altitude
of MCO's closest approach to Mars as it was
firing its engine to enter orbit was 57 kms
(35 miles). The target altitude had been apx
140 kms (90 miles), with minimum survivable
altitude for MCO at between 85 and 100 kms
(about 53 to 62 miles). The project is moving
swiftly to determine the causes of this error,
assisted by an internal review team.

+ (no story link) see frontpage for ongoing updates
http://www.spacedaily.com

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VIA WASHINGTON

Defense Capabilities Initiative Targets the Future
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/milspace-99i.html
Toronto - September 24, 1999 - The Defense
Capabilities Initiative, the latest concept
sweeping NATO, is key to meeting 21st century
security challenges, alliance leaders meeting
here Sept. 21 and 22 said.

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MILSPACE
Japan To Use US Spy Tech
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/japan-spysat-99a.html
Tokyo - September 24, 1999 - Japan will buy
key parts from the United States for its first
spy satellites to be built in response to North
Korea's missile threat, reports said Friday.

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TECH SPACE
Russia Returns Foton 12 Capsule
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/foton-99b.html
Orenburg - September 25, 1999 - European scientists
are waiting to retrieve their experiments from the
unmanned Russian Foton return capsule which landed
on the open steppes of Kazakhstan after 16 days in
orbit at 14:29 local time September 24. 

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EO UPDATE

Oceans Running Hot and Cold
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/quikscat-99i.html
Pasadena - September 24, 1999 - Three current
storms captured by a NASA satellite show how
unusual sea temperatures are creating a clear
corridor in the Atlantic for more to come.

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