GeneSat Launched
NASA’s GeneSat-1 Reaches Orbit on Air Force Rocket
“NASA’s GeneSat-1 rode an Air Force rocket into Earth orbit on Dec. 16, 2006 at 4 a.m. PST (7 a.m. EST) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. The satellite’s locator beacon has been detected, and data has been received as GeneSat-1 orbits Earth, according to scientists.”
Editor’s 17 Dec 11:00 am EST update: GeneSat was launched more than 24 hours ago – yet ARC still hasn’t bothered to up date its own website to make note of this rather important event. The ARC home page has a link that says “GeneSat-1 Set to Launch on TacSat-2 Mission” and the GeneSat home page itself (which the NASA press release tells you to visit) still says “TacSat2 launch delayed due to technical issue with the TacSat2 spacecraft.” ARC PAO certainly knows that the launch has happened. However, it would seem that they don’t really care to let people know. Too bad. Smallsats such as this mission could mean a lot of exciting new work at ARC.
Editor’s 17 Dec 8:00 pm EST update: ARC PAO finally got around to updating their websites to reflect a major news story affecting their center. If ARC wants to be positioned at the cutting edge of Internet technology ARC PAO is going to need to learn how to be able to update their website after hours and on weekends.
