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To: DiViT who wrote (36536)	10/6/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

DirecTV and Eutelsat. More work for Divi???????????????????????? flatoday.com For Oct. 6, 1998 Arianespace Flight 111: Double success for European DBS industry Arianespace News Release During the night of October 5 to 6, 1998, Arianespace successfully launched two direct broadcast satellites (DBS): W2 for Eutelsat, and Sirius 3 for Swedish company NSAB. Flight 111 was carried out by an Ariane 44L, the version of the European launcher with four liquid-propellant strap-on boosters. It used the 81st out of 116 Ariane 4 launchers ordered to date from the European space industry. Liftoff from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana took place on Monday, October 5, 1998 at 7:51 p.m. local time (22H51 GMT; 6:51 p.m. in Washington, DC; and on Tuesday, October 6 at 12:51 a.m. in Paris). Moments after this 39th successful Ariane 4 launch in a row, Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Marie Luton said: "We have accomplished our mission for this evening's two customers. Direct TV broadcasting now extends from Scandinavia to North Africa, and from the Middle East to the Indian Ocean. We are very proud of our pivotal role in the Eutelsat system: out of the European organization's 15 satellites, Arianespace has launched 13. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Eutelsat for its long-standing confidence. And we would also like to thank NSAB, which has entrusted us with the three satellites in its fleet. "We are also very satisfied because, since August 25th, we have carried out three launches in less than six weeks, illustrating our ability to offer our customers fast, flexible and reliable access to space."