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To: Ilaine who wrote (42)	3/7/2000 12:51:00 AM
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From the ICO website, www. ico.com: >>ICO's first satellite is scheduled to launch from the Sea Launch platform Odyssey in mid-Pacific on March 12. The launch will be a major milestone for a company founded five years ago on the vision of affordable global mobile personal communications. The launch will place a single satellite - based on the flight-proven Hughes HS601 bus - into an orbit inclined at 45 degrees to the equator, 10,390km above the surface of the Earth. Once fully deployed, the satellite will be controlled from ICO's Satellite Control Centre at Uxbridge in the UK, orbiting the Earth every six hours. Initially the spacecraft will be used for end-to-end testing of the company's global system and for spectrum mapping, preparing the ground for the launch of the rest of ICO's constellation of 10 operational satellites. The ICO satellite was designed and built by Hughes Space and Communications, which is also arranging launch services for ICO. Hughes estimates it has produced nearly 40 per cent of the satellites now in commercial service worldwide. The satellite and its Zenit rocket were successfully transferred from Sea Launch Commander to Odyssey on February 24. During the transfer both vessels were tied up at the Long Beach home port in California. Over the next two days the Zenit was erected on the launch platform and then returned to a horizontal position and rolled back into its weatherproof hangar. Sea Launch Commander sailed on the evening of February 26, taking up station three miles offshore to run overnight communications tests with Odyssey, still tied up in port. The self-propelled platform sailed on February 27 and the two vessels proceeded together towards the launch location 154 degrees west longitude at the equator, about 200 nautical miles east of Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.<<

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