Mohinder Guru, Intelsat's Senior Manager for Space Systems Acquisition, is our customer respresentative at sea. Here, he is seated at his workstation in the Launch Control Center during the launch rehearsal. Mario Anselmi, launch manager for Space Systems/Loral, is seated to his right.

FAA representatives Zack Adams and Howard Searicht participate in the rehearsal.

Leo Childs, operations procedures specialist, discusses procedures during the rehearsal with Olga Podolyaka, control room specialist.

Ground Support/S-Band antenna control area engineers and technicians are busy during the rehearsal. From bottom right, Bruce Collins, Larry Hutchinson and Bryan Wiese. Don Domonoske sits at his workstation in the background.

On the Russian-speaking side of the Launch Control Center, the team is focused on their work. From left are Alexander Sidorov, Yuzhnoye technical manager; Andriy Keznyetsov, Yuzhnoye test group chief; Tatiana Denisova, Energia control system operator; and Oleksii Loktiev, Yuzuhnoye test engineer.

A discussion is underway with (left to right) Nikolay Nikiforov, DBTM thermostating engineer; Igor Yarymov, DBTM thermostating engineer; Victor Moronov, Energia thermostating operator; and Viktor Zhelezniak, Yuzhnoye engineer.

(Sea Launch photos by
David Hutsell)

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