READY FOR LAUNCH
Ball Aerospace&Technologies Corp. has shipped EarthWatch Inc.'s first QuickBird commercial remote-sensing satellite to Russia for launch on Nov. 19 on a Cosmos rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome (see photo). QuickBird 1 will be placed in a 66-deg. Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 600 km....
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