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... Release 80-195) INTELSAT announced that its board of governors had decided to purchase three more INTELSAT 5A satellites in addition to the nine already on hand for the INTELSAT 5 series, the latter to be launched by the end of 1982. Launching of the 5A series would ...

... of cost, scarcity, and lack of durability. (NASA Release 80-185) INTELSAT said that the full launch sequence for INTELSAT 5A F2 , world's largest and most advanced commercial communications satellite, was completed ... the momentum wheel to stabilize it facing Earth's surface. Final operation was antenna deployment. INTELSAT 5A F2 would now drift in equatorial orbit to its station as primary Atlantic Ocean communications ...

NASA launched INTELSAT 5A F2 , first of a new communications satellite series, from ESMC at Cape Canaveral , Fla., at ... of 12,000 voice circuits and 2 television channels, almost double the capability of earlier INTELSAT s. Cost of the launch was about $76.6 million, including $34 million for the spacecraft and $42 million for the Atlas Centaur and launch services. INTELSAT , with headquarters in Washington, D.C., would reimburse NASA for costs of the vehicle and ...

... and an experimental satellite in orbit 25,000 miles up. About 30 minutes later, the INTELSAT 5A F2 , largest communications satellite ever built, roared into orbit with the rocket trail familiar to ...

... Observatory OSO VI, Ogo VI, and Explorer XLI . Applications satellites included Intelsat-III F-3, Intelsat-III F-4, and Intelsat-III F-5 for ComSat-Corp; ESSA IX meteorological satellite for ESSA ... was initiated to continue aeronautical R&D, using YF-12 supersonic aircraft. First operational C-5A, military cargo transport and world's largest aircraft, was delivered to USAF and by November ...

May 21-23: Intelsat-III F-4 was successfully launched by NASA for ComSatCorp on behalf of International Telecommunications ... 5° inclination. Intelsat-III F-4 was third successful launch in Intelsat III series. Intelsat-III F-3 had been launched Feb. 5, and Intelsat-III F-2, Dec. 18, 1968. Intelsat-III F-1 ... four TV channels. ''(NASA Proj Off; ComSatCorp Release 69-27)'' May 21: USAF's C-5A Galaxy jet became heaviest aircraft flown, in test flight from Dobbins AFB, Ga., with 728 ...

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