Sep 25 1987
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, had successfully tested a passenger vehicle satellite antenna. The newly developed antenna, designed to be mounted on the roof of a passenger vehicle, was expected to play an important role in NASA's mobile satellite experiment program. This program and other technologies were expected to lead eventually toward a mobile satellite communications system. The first success in the program was achieved when researchers, using an antenna on moving passenger vehicle, were able to track an in-orbit satellite. (NASA Release 87-143)
General Dynamic Corporation announced it had been awarded a contract to launch between one and three European satellites by the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT). The 26-nation European consortium selected General Dynamic's Atlas-Centaur rockets for the launching of its satellites because of their cost and reliability. The agreement called for a launch of a EUTELSAT-2 communications satellite in early 1990 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with options for two additional launches. (LA Times, Sept 26/87)
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