Event: Boston University and USRA will brief the press on TERRIERS, a satellite designed and built by a team of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at Boston University. TERRIERS, now in the final stages of preparation at Vandenberg Air Force Base, will be launched on April 19, 1999. A webcast of this briefing can also be seen at: http://www.bu.edu/satellite. Press materials and satellite related B-roll including building, packing and moving the satellite and interviews with TERRIERS team members will be available.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 1999

Time: 1PM EDT

Location: The School of Management at Boston University 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Room #410

What: The TERRIERS satellite will produce unprecedented three-dimensional images of the ionosphere giving scientists valuable information about this level of the upper atmosphere. This will enable them to better predict space weather, which can affect communication systems on earth.

Contact: Shauna LaFauci or Joan Schwartz at the above numbers or at the Office of Public Relations main number: 617-353-2240.