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CASCADES - Update - January 21, 2005

Yesterday (Thursday, January 20) there was the ACS test fligt. This appears to have been a success. This is very good news for the launch. The ACS test flight was the 4th in a series of development test flights for the attitude control system subsystem. The 2nd and 3rd flights were unsuccessful (one software error, one vehicle failure) so this successful 4th flight is a great relief to all concerned. At the Wallops site in Virgina on the Delmarva peninsula things are moving along. There are four big things to get to the mission readiness review: sequence testing, vibration testing, test flight, and the deploy test. So now two of these are out of the way. Currently the vibration testing is going on, and then the deploy test will come soon after this.