Spaceway 1 launch update.

[fkostyn]

I hadn't seen anything on here yet in regards to the new satellite - and I found this news blurb on Boeing's site..


Boeing and DIRECTV Announce Shipment of Spaceway Satellite to Sea Launch

ST. LOUIS, March 16, 2005 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] and The DIRECTV Group, Inc. [NYSE: DTV] announced today the arrival of the Spaceway F1 satellite at the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach, Calif., where it will undergo final preparations for a late April launch aboard a Zenit-3SL vehicle.

Full text
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050316m.html

Nice picture of the satellite
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2005/photorelease/q1/pr_050316m.html

 

[charper1]

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=57959&highlight=spaceway