At 04:39 PM 12/19/02 +1100, Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:
>On Saturday 14th December 2002, a Japanese H-2A booster launched FedSat,
>Australia's first satellite for 30 years - and the first foreign payload
>launched with the H-2A.

. . .

>"In Space, no-one can press CTRL-ALT-DEL"
>
>But with Ada, you don't have to.
>
>Alan Brain (Head of FedSat On-Board Computer Software Development)
>mailto:[log in to unmask]

Alan.  That is a wonderful story!  Congratulations to you and your
eminently successful team.

Please be sure to work with Ann Brandon to get this Success Story written
up for distribution by the ARA.

I sincerely hope the story will include the last 2 sentences of your email
message, if only as a quote from Alan Brain.

sro

S. Ron Oliver, the U.S. representative for Top Graph'X, developers of high
quality software components, using Ada, including OrbRiver the
multi-language ORB.  A single distributed programming environment for all
developers.  Supports Ada95, Java, and C++.

For more information, check out www.topgraphx.com.

Semi-retired professor of Computer Science and Computer
Engineering.  www.csc.calpoly.edu/~sroliver