we are the best.

Sunday February 13, 2005 00:26

by nightime - might be breaching the decency. oh yes always the wish...

we are honestly - we are.

less than a day since the Spanish state and French state sent the Guardia Civil and Secret police to raid monastries of the benedictine order for presumed coloboration with ETA, and the simultaneous meeting of the President Chirac and President Zapatero of the French Republic and Kingdom of Spain who jointly share the responsibility for the state of Andorra under the treaty of Utrecht just about back then - when we started using this nifty calander and collecting art to put on display, et cetera, et cetera, vote in your referendum, vote, tell us what you think please,

Europe has launched the biggest satelite without a silly name ever ever and only yesterday Chirac and ZP but where was the big man doesn't say much Shroeder? with flu along with burlesconi with flu imagine it. where are we all going?

we have aids and insecurity they have flu and national debt. It is truly the wisdom of God.

The latest version of Ariane 5, designed to loft payloads of up to 10 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit, (very technical eh? )successfully completed its initial qualification flight on 12 February.

After a perfect liftoff from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 18:03 local time (22:03 CET), (21h03 irish times land utterly inept Geraldine Kennedy make em pay 7€ to read the obituaries and birth notices and do crossiare land)

the launcher on Ariane Flight 164 injected its payload into the predicted transfer orbit.

(big injection. eh? what you prefer? injection of capital? injection of smack? injection of collagen make your lips glow?)

This success paves the way for the commercial introduction of this 'Ariane 5 ECA' version, which is due to replace the current Ariane 5G 'Generic' configuration and is designed to maintain the competitiveness of European launch systems on the world launch services market. Starting from the second flight scheduled for mid-year, Ariane 5 ECA will become the new European workhorse for lifting heavy payloads to geostationary orbit and beyond.

So if you'd like to launch a satelite to mars just give the ESA crew a call. ¿wny not?

Ariane 5 ECA features upgraded twin solid boosters, each loaded with an extra 2.43 tonnes of propellant, increasing their combined thrust on liftoff by a total of 60 tonnes compared to the Generic configuration. The cryogenic main stage has also been upgraded to carry 15 tonnes of additional propellant. It is powered by the new Vulcain 2 engine, derived from Vulcain 1, which provides 20% more thrust. The Ariane 5 ECA introduces the new high-performance "ESC-A" cryogenic upper stage, powered by the same HM-7B engine as on the Ariane 4 third stage.

sounds very cool doesn't it?
all that cyrogenics.

Ariane 5 ECA has enough lift capacity to take most combinations of commercial satellites to geostationary transfer orbit and will enable Arianespace to reinstate the systematic dual-launch policy that spelled the success of previous generations of Ariane launchers.

something to do with thread, I seem to recall, that Ariana lass.

On this flight, the Ariane 5 ECA launcher carried three payloads. The first released 26 minutes into flight, was XTAR-EUR, a 3600-kg commercial X-band communication satellite flown on behalf of XTAR LLC. Really clear cut high resolution cool photo work, and seems to work underground too comrade, its as interesting as good weather. Can't remember how many pixels though. This will subsequently use its onboard propulsion system to achieve circular orbit. (around a geoid shaped planet pretty cool eh?)

After an initial period of in-orbit testing, it will be deployed to provide secure communications to government customers.
(are you on the list comrade?).

The other two satellites onboard, the Sloshsat FLEVO minisatellite and the Maqsat B2 instrumented model, (well cool eh?) stored inside the Sylda dual launch adapter, were flown on behalf of ESA. (who else?)

Next released, 31 minutes after liftoff, the Sloshsat Facility for Liquid Experimentation and Verification in Orbit is a 129-kg satellite developed for ESA by the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NRL). It will investigate fluid physics in microgravity to understand how propellant-tank sloshing affects spacecraft control. Its mission is planned to last 10 days.

(thats ten days comrade)

In order to limit the proliferation of space debris, the third passenger, Maqsat B2, will remain attached to the launcher's upper stage. 8thank God for that eh?) This 3500-kg instrumented model was designed to simulate the dynamic behaviour of a commercial satellite inside the Ariane 5 payload fairing. (very swish very cool almost like the sort of trendy almost underwear illegalised in virginia last week http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/droopy.pants.ap/

An autonomous telemetry system transmitted data on the payload environment during all the flight phases, from liftoff to in-orbit injection.

(that would be wellpaid autonomous scientist lads and lassies not the really important autonomous down your local grass roots lets get the revolution in perspective sort of thing... like)

Fitted with a set of cameras, (you don't say, how many pixels you got then?) Maqsat B2 also provided dramatic onboard views of several key flight phases, including separation of the solid boosters and jettisoning of the Sylda upper-half payload.

“Less than one month after the descent of Huygens on Titan,
(you remember that don't you?????) this launch marks another great achievement for Europe in space and a further demonstration of European skills in this highly demanding technological field” said Jean-Jacques Dordain, (blaa blaa blaa blaa blaa) Director General of ESA, after the flight. “Today’s success is also just reward for all the people, in industry and at agencies all over Europe, who have been working so hard to bring this launcher back into operational use.

"Guaranteed access to space is a pre-requisite for our success in all space activities and so it is our duty to maintain this capacity to the full.”

For further information, please contact :
ESA Media Relations Division
Tel: +33(0)1.53.69.7155
Fax: +33(0)1.53.69.7690

€SA chose the 12th of february St Eulalia day, weird woman probably mythical carries an X cross, to launch the new Ariane V.
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aren't we all relieved?
If you've ten tonnes of stuff you'd like to get into deep space orbit quickly and effectively give the man a call. Why not?

Vote with your conscience.
din't go ordering hundreds of thousands of trips the guards are onto you.