Oicets Launched With Dnepr, Japanese laser communications satellite |
Oicets Launched With Dnepr, Japanese laser communications satellite |
Aug 24 2005, 07:57 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 26-January 05 From: Belgium Member No.: 157 |
Space Based Observing might not be the right forum but I couldn't find a closer match.
From the press release: QUOTE The Dnepr Launch Vehicle, which was launched at 6:10 a.m. on August 24, 2005, (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Republic of Kazakhstan, flew normally, and separated the Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) and the Innovative Technology Demonstration Experiment Satellite (INDEX) about 15 minutes after liftoff. Two years ago, they conducted a ground-based experiment with the laser comms package of ESA's ARTEMIS satellite in GEO. Now they will do the same thing from LEO and it is supposed to look like this: |
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Aug 24 2005, 02:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
Heh-heh...
"Oh, I see its." |
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