ADVISORY/Photos transmitted back from space by the PAS-1R are available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/ Business Editors/Aerospace Writers ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) The photo is BW1 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wires Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.120100/bw1 Photo caption reads: "PHOTO OPPORTUNITY" - Just days following its successful launch from Kourou, French Guiana French Guiana (gēăn`ə, –än`–), Fr. La Guyane française, officially Department of Guiana, French overseas department (2005 est. pop. , PAS-1R, a Boeing 702 built for PanAmSat, has transmitted back photos from space. The on-board cameras, which will also videotape the deployment of the spacecraft's solar arrays, caught these glimpses of the sun and the Earth as PAS-1R was coming out of perigee perigee (pĕr`ĭjē), point nearest the earth in the orbit of a body about the earth. See apsis. See apogee. . The first two frames (top and middle) show the Earth in the foreground, and the third photograph (bottom) is looking toward the sun. PAS-1R is thesecond Boeing 702 in the PanAmSat fleet and will provide video, data and Internet services to four continents from its orbital slot over the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean [Lat.,=of Atlas], second largest ocean (c.31,800,000 sq mi/82,362,000 sq km; c.36,000,000 sq mi/93,240,000 sq km with marginal seas). Physical Geography Extent and Seas . (Business Wire photo) |
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