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Successful Launch Of TEXUS 43 From Esrange Space Center

Launch of TEXUS 43.
by Staff Writers
 Esrange, Sweden (SPX) May 12, 2006
 The sounding rocket TEXUS 43 was successfully launched today from the Swedish Space Corporation's (SSC) launch facility Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. The launch took place at 08.12 (UT) and the rocket provided almost 6 minutes (347 sec) of microgravity time for the 5 experi­ments on board.

The TEXUS project is a sounding rocket program with the primary aim to investigate the properties and behaviour of materials, chemicals and biological substances in a micro­gravity environment. The programme is founded by ESA (European Space Agency) and

carried out jointly by EuroLaunch and EADS-ST (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company – Space Transportation). EuroLaunch is a cooperation between SSC and DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt).

"Today we launched the new rocket VSB-30 for the second time and from a safety point of view we are very pleased", says Mr. Stig Kemi, Head of Sounding Rocket and Balloon Department at Esrange. "We have by this launch confirmed that VSB-30 will be an excellent rocket motor for the TEXUS and MASER programmes", Mr. Kemi concludes.

"We had a nominal flight and another perfect recovery of a totally undamaged payload", says Mr. Wolfgang Herfs, project manager for ESA. "It seems that two of the three experiments have worked flawlessly while in the combustion experiment the ignition system unfortunately failed. Overall we have a 60% success as regards the science on the sounding rocket mission", Mr. Herfs concludes.

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 Sea Launch announced Monday it has signed a firm contract with EchoStar Communications to launch the EchoStar XI Direct Broadcast Satellite in 2007. Sea Launch has placed two previous EchoStar satellites in orbit: EchoStar IX in August 2003 and EchoStar X in February 2006.
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