[HamSat] Echo Update

[Timothy Pickett]

ECHO checkout continues at launch site

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 176.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD.  June 20, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-176.01

On Monday, 14 June 2004, ECHO was fit-checked.  The following day the
process of placing it on a piece of Aluminum with a satellite from Italy and
then putting that on the launch platform was completed.  Chuck Green, N0ADI,
reporting from Baikonur says, "ECHO was placed on the launch platform that
will be on top of the rocket.  It looks really good there."

The launch integration team at Baikonur includes Chuck Green, N0ADI.