From: Charlene Anderson
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:01 PM
To: planetarysociety
Subject: Solar Sail Launch Update
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:01 PM
To: planetarysociety
Subject: Solar Sail Launch Update
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Dear Friend:
The spacecraft for the suborbital test flight of our Cosmos 1 solar sail is now repaired and ready for launch. We're on track for the orbital test flight late this year, but we will of course re-evaluate the schedule when we have the results of the suborbital test.
As you may recall, the suborbital test was postponed when the spacecraft was damaged during preflight check-out on April 9. Last month I led a Planetary Society team to Russia to review progress on the repairs - which I'm pleased to report have been completed. For a report on our findings and pictures of both the damaged and repaired craft, please visit our website at
Dear Friend:
The spacecraft for the suborbital test flight of our Cosmos 1 solar sail is now repaired and ready for launch. We're on track for the orbital test flight late this year, but we will of course re-evaluate the schedule when we have the results of the suborbital test.
As you may recall, the suborbital test was postponed when the spacecraft was damaged during preflight check-out on April 9. Last month I led a Planetary Society team to Russia to review progress on the repairs - which I'm pleased to report have been completed. For a report on our findings and pictures of both the damaged and repaired craft, please visit our website at
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/Media.htm
The spacecraft is now ready to go, but we still have to wait for the Russian navy to assign a time slot for the submarine launch, which may be in mid-July. We hope to be able to announce a firm date by the end of this month.
In other news, we were happy to learn that the A&E Network will broadcast a documentary about Cosmos 1 sometime next year. Our primary sponsor, Cosmos Studios, is producing the documentary.
Lou Friedman
P.S. We're still actively campaigning to save NASA's mission to Pluto. Even though NASA has selected two proposals as worthy of further work, there is no money in the budget for the mission. Every letter of support helps. If you can, please visit http://capwiz.com/tps/issues/alert/?alertid=28287&type=CO and let Congress know of your support for this crucial mission of discovery.
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Charlene M. Anderson
Associate Director
The Planetary Society
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://planetary.org
office: 626-793-5100
fax: 626-793-5528
The spacecraft is now ready to go, but we still have to wait for the Russian navy to assign a time slot for the submarine launch, which may be in mid-July. We hope to be able to announce a firm date by the end of this month.
In other news, we were happy to learn that the A&E Network will broadcast a documentary about Cosmos 1 sometime next year. Our primary sponsor, Cosmos Studios, is producing the documentary.
Lou Friedman
P.S. We're still actively campaigning to save NASA's mission to Pluto. Even though NASA has selected two proposals as worthy of further work, there is no money in the budget for the mission. Every letter of support helps. If you can, please visit http://capwiz.com/tps/issues/alert/?alertid=28287&type=CO and let Congress know of your support for this crucial mission of discovery.
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Charlene M. Anderson
Associate Director
The Planetary Society
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://planetary.org
office: 626-793-5100
fax: 626-793-5528
