CloudSat/CALIPSO Launch Foreign Press Accreditation

Media Advisory

Longueuil, Quebec, August 25, 2005 - International news media coming from overseas to cover the launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California of CloudSat/CALIPSO are required to apply for accreditation one month before launch occurs. For a September 29 launch, applications must be received by August 29, 2005.
International news media should contact:
Major Todd Fleming
30th Space Wing Public Affairs Office
Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA
Tel.: (805) 606-3595
Fax: (805) 606-8303
E-mail: todd.fleming@vandenberg.af.mil

Information required: full legal name, date of birth, nationality, passport number, and media affiliation. Legal photo identification will be required upon arrival at Vandenberg to cover the launch.
The launch of CloudSat/CALIPSO aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base is scheduled for September 29, 2005, at the opening of an instantaneous launch window that occurs at about 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time (6:00 a.m. Eastern Time).
CloudSat is an international and interagency mission with project management by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. The CloudSat radar instrument was developed at JPL with hardware contributed by the Canadian Space Agency.

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More information on CloudSat can be found at: http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/satellites/cloudsat.asp.

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Media Relations
Canadian Space Agency
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