Sputnik otpravlen na "Baikonur"
21.09.2000 8:50 | Russkii Pereplet

Izgotovlennyi amerikanskoi kompaniei Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) dlya operatora svyazi Americom Asia-Pacific (AAP), sovmestnogo predpriyatiya GE American Communications i Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, sputnik svyazi GE-1A otpravlen s zavoda v Sanniveil (sht. Kaliforniya, SShA) dlya predstartovoi podgotovki na kosmodrom Baikonur. Zapusk sputnika zaplanirovan na nachalo oktyabrya nyneshnego goda. Na bortu KA

"Atlantis" vernulsya na Zemlyu
21.09.2000 5:00 | Russkii Pereplet

20 sentyabrya 2000 goda posle 12-sutochnogo prebyvaniya na orbite na Zemlyu vozvratilsya amerikanskii kosmicheskii korabl' OV-104 Atlantis, sovershavshii polet po programme STS-106. Posadka byla sovershena na territorii Kosmicheskogo centra imeni Kennedi (NASA Kennedy Space Center) na myse Kanaveral, posadochnaya polosa 15.