Yesterday 28th on ca 21Z15, Greek satelitte Helassat 3 has rocketed from Courou N Guiana the 2nd satelitte in series togeher with another for India . There was a delay of about 14 minutes for the final check. Satelitte will land in several days in its orbital position of 39E and will handle various telecom services that include Satelitte Tv , IPTV, GPS , marine uses and much more .Its payload is 5 tons Ofifcial info is here: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-va238/
The program has been aired via the national TV channel ET1 starting from 20Z30 to at least 22Z00 the time i stoped watching ie due to very late time (2 morning LT ) that was too boring after . PTT ministers from Greece and Cyprus in Courou have also discussed the topic live with the female blonde newsacster .In the first part of the program ie half hour before the flight an ex-graduate student of the Thessaloniki Uni related to aerodynamics discussed also the topic adn thn hwole process from ingiton to orbit and how it will be monitored It is a big revoluton for our country.15 years after the fist Hellassat landed Greece returns agressively into satcoms and next year its sucessor hellasat 4 will be orbited in the same posotion to replace the existing Helassat 2. FYI the satelite parts industry is one of the few healthy industries in Greece with high export rates of at 150MEu last year. Writen with the help from an aussie mate .Hope it is well understand-able Zacharias Liangas https://www.facebook.com/zachliang http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
