NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: June 18, 1999

Media Advisory m99-124

Summary:

-- Video File: QuikScat Ocean Winds Satellite To Launch (replay) (TRT

5:35)
-- Upcoming Live Event: QuikScat Satellite Prelaunch Briefing, June 18
-- Upcoming Live Event: QuikScat Launch, June 19

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POWER OUTAGE: There will be a Goddard Television planned power outage

this weekend, beginning Friday, June 18 at 5 p.m. and ending Monday,
June 21 at 6 a.m. Media in the Washington, D.C., area who receive their
NASA Television video feed via landline (including the Bell Atlantic
Audiovisual Operations Center) will not receive NASA Television. NASA
Television will still be available directly via the satellite: GE-2,
transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization.
Frequency is on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on
6.8 megahertz

Video File for June 18, 1999

ITEM 1 QUIKSCAT OCEAN WINDS SATELLITE TO LAUNCH (REPLAY)

(TRT 5:35)

Item 1A QuikScat animation

The Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat), NASA's next El Nino watcher,
will be used to better understand global weather anomalies. The SeaWinds
instrument aboard QuikScat will provide daily, detailed measurements of
winds as they swirl above the world's oceans. QuikScat is scheduled to
launch no earlier than 10:15 p.m. EDT, June 19, 1999.
 Item 1B Spinning Globe
Computer-generated, simulated QuikScat data on a spinning globe
shows the wind patterns over the world's oceans.

Item 1C QuikScat clean room b-roll

Footage shows the QuikScat satellite in the clean room at Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, CO.

Item 1D Interview excerpts

Dr. Jim Graf, QuikScat Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
CA

Item 1E Interview excerpts

Dr. Michael Freilich, QuikScat Team Leader, SeaWinds Principal
Investigator Oregon State University

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Dave Steitz, 202/358-1730;

Contact at Jet Propulsion Lab: Diane Ainsworth, 818/354-0850.

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UPCOMING LIVE EVENT: QUIKSCAT PRELAUNCH PRESS BRIEFING,
JUNE 18
The prelaunch press briefing will be carried live on NASA Television,
Friday June 18, beginning at 3 p.m. EDT.

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Dave Steitz, 202/358-1730;

Contact at Jet Propulsion Lab: Diane Ainsworth, 818/354-0850.

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UPCOMING LIVE EVENT: QUIKSCAT LAUNCH, JUNE 19

The QuikScat satellite, NASA's next El Nino watcher, will launch at
10:15 p.m. EDT, June 19 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. The
satellite was scheduled for liftoff June 18 but the launch was delayed
24 hours so engineers could work on a possible instrumentation problem
with the Titan II launch vehicle. Launch coverage on NASA Television
will begin at 8:30 p.m. EDT, June 19.

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Dave Steitz, 202/358-1730;

Contact at Jet Propulsion Lab: Diane Ainsworth, 818/354-0850.

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