ADVISORY/Web And Satellite Links To ICO's First Satellite Launch Available Sunday, March 12.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. (March 12) --(BUSINESS WIRE) ICO's first satellite will be launched from a Sea Launch platform in the Pacific Ocean at 9:49 a.m. Eastern Time (6:49 a.m. Pacific Time) on Sunday, March 12. The launch can be viewed live via a webcast at www.sea-launch.com In addition, coordinates of the Sea Launch satellite feed are as follows:
Transponders
March 12 08:30 - 10:15 EST GE 5K/15
05:30 - 07:15 PST GE 2C/23
March 12 11:30 - 12:15 EST GE 5K/15
08:30 - 09:15 PST GE 2C/23
Domestic
GE 5K 15
Transponder 15
Arc Position 79 Degrees West
Uplink Freq: 14457
Downlink Freq: 12157/Vertical
Cayman Islands
GE 2C 23
Transponder 23
Arc Position 85 Degrees West
Uplink Freq: 6385
Downlink Freq: 4160/Vertical
London and Moscow
New Skies K/H5 Upper
Transponder H5 Upper
Arc Position: 338.5 Degrees East
Uplink Freq: 14298.5/Uplink/Horizontal
Downlink Freq: 11498.5/Horizontal
Domestic audio subcarriers are 6.2 and 6.8 identical. London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. and Moscow subcarriers are 6.6 and 7.4 identical. Transmission is analog. In addition, ICO ICO Icon (File Name Extension) ICO In Case Of ICO Information Commissioner's Office (UK) ICO Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain: Official Credit Institute) will make still photographs available on ICO's website at www.ico.com. ICO Global Communications was established in January 1995 as a private company to provide global mobile personal communications services See PCS. by satellite, including digital voice, data, facsimile, high-penetration notification, and messaging services. ICO Global Communications was listed on Nasdaq in July 1998. The stock was delisted from Nasdaq on Dec. 16, 1999, following suspension of trading after the company filed for Chapter 11 protection on August 27, 1999. Building on proven performance and flight-tested hardware, Sea Launch combines the world's premier aerospace and marine expertise to provide satellite and end-user customers with superior value, performance and fully integrated commercial launch service capabilities. The Sea Launch global partnership includes Boeing Commercial Space Company, Kent, Washington Kent is a city located in King County, Washington, United States. The second largest city in south King County and the eighth largest in the state, Kent has the third-largest industrial area in the United States. (provides spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see integration and payload (1) Refers to the "actual data" in a packet or file minus all headers attached for transport and minus all descriptive meta-data. In a network packet, headers are appended to the payload for transport and then discarded at their destination. accommodations, and management of overall Home Port operations); the Anglo-Norwegian Kvaerner Group of Oslo, Norway (provides marine engineering and operations); RSC RSC Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) RSC Royal Shakespeare Company RSC Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (Spanish: corporate social responsibility) RSC Royal Society of Canada Energia of Moscow, Russia (provides the Block-DM upper stage and its integration with the launch vehicle); and KB Yuzhnoye/PO Yuzhmash of Ukraine (provides the first two stages of the launch vehicle). Visit the ICO Website at http: www.ico.com |
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