29.9.: Rußland schießt 3 Satelliten zu globaler KATASTROPHENBEOBACHTUNG in Orbit

verfasst von RK, 08.10.2003, 22:35

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Russian Rocket Launches Disaster Monitor Satellites
Sat September 27, 2003 09:05 AM ET
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian rocket successfully launched on Saturday half a dozen satellites, <font color=#FF0000>including three devoted to monitoring natural disasters throughout the world</font>.
State television showed the Kosmos-3M lifting off from the Plisetsk launch site in Russia's far north, with spectators on a viewing stand embracing each other after it was completed.

News agencies, quoting Russia's rocket forces, said all six satellites aboard -- two of them Russian and others belonging to organizations in Britain, Nigeria, South Korea and Turkey -- had later been placed in orbit without incident. The launch had been postponed from Friday"for technical reasons."

"The launch is proceeding according to plan," Interfax quoted the rocket forces' press service as saying.

Television said the two Russian satellites -- Mozhaets-4 and Larets -- were to conduct research and coordinate radar monitoring stations for the Defense Ministry.

<font color=#FF0000>The British, Nigerian and Turkish satellites were part of the $40 million Disaster Monitoring Constellation project, which its British backers say will provide day-to-day monitoring of disasters.

Five ground stations will provide up-to-the-minute data to enable relief agencies to direct their operations more efficiently in tackling droughts, earthquakes, fires, and man-made calamities.

Other countries taking part include Algeria, China and Thailand</font>.

The South Korean satellite launched on Saturday is intended to observe accumulations of gas.

Russia bears the brunt of manned flights and supplies to the 16-nation International Space Station since the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on re-entry in February.

Many countries also rely on Russian rockets to launch unmanned satellites. The chief engineer of the Siberian firm which produces the Kosmos-3M rocket told Itar-Tass news agency that Saturday's launch proved the vehicle was reliable.

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• 29.9.: Rußland schießt 3 Satelliten zu globaler KATASTROPHENBEOBACHTUNG in Orbit - RK, 08.10.2003, 22:35
  • Auf einmal: Dt. Forscher warnen vor 40-Meter-Monsterwellen auf den Weltmeeren! - RK, 08.10.2003, 23:12
    • Eine ganz andere Deutung der Galileo-Sonde (das Mikrobenmärchen glaube wer will) - RK, 08.10.2003, 23:18
      • Zum"krönenden" Abschluß: Absurde Sci-Fi á la Armageddon/Deep Impact oder mehr? - RK, 08.10.2003, 23:24
        • Sach mal RK - rocca, 09.10.2003, 00:02
          • Re: Sach mal RK - kizkalesi, 09.10.2003, 08:45
    • Re: Auf einmal: Dt. Forscher warnen vor 40-Meter-Monsterwellen auf den Weltmeeren! - Hakunamatata42, 09.10.2003, 07:24