YES2 launch date confirmed - 14th September 2007

Hello all,
some rumors were spread in the last days about a possible launch delay of Foton-M3 and YES2. These rumors were based on a failure during a test of an important payload. Thanks to the fact that the failure has been fixed the past night, the launch has been confirmed and the launch preparation activities are roceeding nominally. The launch will happen on the 14th of September 2007.

YES2 will complete today the checkout operations and then the only remaning action will be on the 10th the arming of the system.

Marco and Michiel are working hard to ensure that the activity of today will be successful.

The clock is ticking and its sound is louder and louder. We are now 9 days away from launch and the air is getting electric, over here.

Bye,

Fabio