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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 130.05 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. May 9, 2004
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** NASA's Genesis spacecraft flew past Earth on Saturday in a loop that
puts it on track for home and a dramatic mid-air recovery Sept. 8. The
Genesis mission was launched in August of 2001 to capture samples from the
storehouse of 99-percent of all the material in our solar system the Sun.
Helicopter flight crews, navigators and mission engineers are preparing for
the return of the spacecraft. The will dispatch a sample return capsule that
will re-enter Earth's atmosphere for a planned mid-air capture at the U.S.
Air Force Utah Test and Training Range on Sept. 8 --SpaceDaily
** The consortium Sea Launch said it had placed a large US satellite in
orbit, fulfilling the first-ever contract in a cooperation agreement between
three of the world's biggest satellite-launch operators. DirecTV-7S, a
geostationary satellite designed to beam services to 60 local markets in the
United States, was taken aloft at 1242 GMT by a Ukrainian-made Zenit-3SL
rocket, launched from a mobile platform in international waters in the
Pacific. --SpaceDaily
** After a 50-meter (164-foot) drive on sol 94, which ended at 10:10 p.m.
April 29 PDT, and the final approach of 17 meters (56 feet) on sol 95, which
ended at 10:49 p.m. April 30 PDT, Opportunity arrived on the western rim of
"Endurance Crater" and began surveying the spectacular new view.
--SpaceDaily
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