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Technology Stocks : VALENCE TECHNOLOGY (VLNC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jay Lowe who wrote (16298)	11/22/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Today's metaphor ... G* launch successful ... VLNC experiences a launch of it's own ... bring on the handsets! G* advertising program is beginning to appear. spaceflightnow.com 1625 GMT (1125 EST) Second stage separation has been announced by launch officials. 1623 GMT (1123 EST) The protective payload fairing enclosing the Globalstar satellites atop the rocket has been jettisoned. 1622 GMT (1122 EST) The first stage boosters have separated from the Soyuz rocket. No problems have been reported so far in today's launch. 1620 GMT (1120 EST) LIFTOFF! The sixth Soyuz rocket to carry Globalstar satellites into orbit has launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. 1619 GMT (1119 EST) The umbilical arm connecting to the rocket is now swinging away from Soyuz. There is less than a minute left in the countdown. 1615 GMT (1115 EST) The countdown is now inside of five minutes to launch. Today's launch will be the first from Baikonur since the Kazakh government issued a ban on rocket flights from the site following the Oct. 27 failure of a Proton booster. The halt in launches was lifted last week for all rockets except for Protons. During the Proton accident, debris from the rocket fell on a Kazakh town. The ban was the second this year. The first one followed a Proton failure on July 5.