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Boeing Transfers 25th Payload Accommodations Package to Sea Launch |
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18, 2006/Satnews Daily/ ― Boeing Commercial Space Company (BCSC), a subsidiary of Boeing Company [NYSE: BA], celebrated on Thursday the transfer of the 25th Payload Accommodations package to Sea Launch Company, LLC.
The Payload Accommodations package consists of several elements. The high-tech composite Payload Accommodations Fairing is a conical shell measuring 40 feet long and 14 feet wide that protects a satellite during liftoff from a floating launch platform positioned on the Equator. The fairing is jettisoned once it is above the atmosphere and falls to the ocean. The package also includes the payload support structure, an interface skirt, a spacecraft adapter and the avionics necessary to operate and track launch activities within the payload system.
In an employee celebration at the Composites, Fabrication and Assembly Center in Seattle, Ken Heinly, Boeing director of Launch Products and Services and BCSC vice president, hailed employees' reputation for quality, innovation and teamwork.
BCSC provides flight design services and operational hardware to support Sea Launch missions. In addition to the Payload Accommodations package, BCSC performs the mission integration activities necessary to ensure compatibility between the Sea Launch system and the customer satellite to include mission design, system integration, interface verification and launch operations support. BCSC personnel also perform post-flight data review and analysis.
BCSC's work represents one of more than a dozen programs at Boeing Integrated Defense Systems' Puget Sound location, which includes facilities in Kent, Seattle, Renton and Auburn, Wash., employing more than 8,000.
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