Mar 20 1987
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that it would launch a seventh Department of Defense Fleet Satellite Communications spacecraft from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida, no earlier than March 26, 1987. (NASA Release 87-40)
NASA launched a Palapa-B2P, an Indonesian communications satellite, on a Delta 182 from Launch Complex 17B, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Cape Canaveral At Force Station, in Florida. The satellite, intended to serve Indonesia's 13,677 islands, was placed into an elliptical orbit ranging from about 115 miles to 23,000 miles above the Earth. The Palapa-B2P satellite, built by Hughes Aircraft Company, was to be used as a backup for a failing relay station already in orbit. (NY Times, Mar 21/87; B Sun, Mar 21/87; P Inq, Mar 21/87; NY Times, Mar 22/87)
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