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Penny & Giles launches
          with Ariane 5 and ENVISAT.

          
Transducers manufactured
          by Penny & Giles Controls were fitted to the

          engines of the Ariane 5 rocket that successfully launched Envisat,
          Europe's

          largest and most expensive satellite, on its voyage to monitor
          the health of

          the planet.

          
Weighing more
          than 8,000 kg and measuring 10 metres in length, the satellite

          is the largest payload to be launched on an Ariane vehicle. It
          will circle

          the planet every 100 minutes in a polar orbit, looking down from
          a height of

          800 kilometres (500 miles).

          
Penny & Giles
          has supplied four different types of LVDTs for the European

          space programme. They have been installed on the direct drive
          valves and

          servo actuators used for both the thrust vector control of solid
          boosters

          and the Vulcain engine of the first stage of the Ariane 5 launch
          vehicle;

          and on the Aestus engine of the second stage.

          
LVDTs first made
          it into space in the successful launch of mission 502 from

          Kourou, French Guyana on 30th October 1997.

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For more information
          contact:-

          
Penny &
          Giles Controls Ltd.

          Tel:
          +44(0) 1202 409409

          E-mail: mike.iles@pgcontrols.com

          Website: www.pgcontrols.com

          
May 2002

          



                
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