ADVISORY/Boeing-Built PAS-10 Satellite Ready for Launch.Business Editors ADVISORY...for WEDNESDAY NOTE TO EDITORS: Multimedia Assets Available With This Story Include Logos, Photos, Text News Releases --(BUSINESS WIRE) PAS-10, a Boeing 601HP spacecraft built for PanAmSat Corporation, is scheduled to launch on May 15, 2001, aboard a Proton rocket This article contains information regarding a rocket or spacecraft which is either currently in the process of launching, or is scheduled to launch within the next 6 days. Details may change as the countdown and ascent progress. from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. PAS-10, the sixth Boeing-built satellite delivered to PanAmSat in 17 months, and will provide international services from its orbital position of 68.5 degrees East longitude. The launch is scheduled for 7:11 a.m. at the Baikonur launch site (1:11 a.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 and at 6:11 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT on May 14). The satellite was built by Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS See 802.11. BSS - Block Started by Symbol ), a unit of The Boeing Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BA). You can reach the story directly by going to http://www.newstream.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?2883 This multimedia news story is for free and unrestricted use on your news information site (and for print or broadcast too). Visit http://www.newstream.com to download video, audio, text, graphics, and photos. If you have any questions about the story, or about Newstream.com, please write to us at info@newstream.com. |
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