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... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''Palapa-B2'''''
Image = Image:Palapa_B-2_STS-51-A.jpg 200px Organization = Unknown (Indonesia),Unknown (United States) Major_Contractors = ... Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Palapa-B2 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle Palapa-B2, a communications satellite launched from STS-41B for the government ...

... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''Palapa-B1'''''
Image = Image:PALAPAB1-STS7.jpg 200px Organization = Unknown (United States),Unknown (Indonesia) Major_ ... Telecommunications Information = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=Palapa-B1 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle Palapa-B1 was an Indonesian communications satellite deployed from the STS 7 ...

Image:Palapa_2.jpg 200px Palapa 2 satellite Category:Spacecraft

Image:Palapa.jpg 200px Palapa Category:Spacecraft

... VI, which had not operated properly following their earlier deployment from the Space Shuttle . The Palapa B2 recovery was the first retrieval ever of a satellite from space, although astronauts previously ... retrieve Westar VI, a 2,300-pound communications satellite, and bolt it down next to Palapa B2-possibly the shortest $35 million salvage operation ever undertaken, the Washington Post reported. Insurance ...

... 14th-century prime minister, Gaja Mada, who vowed not to eat a popular delicacy called palapa until Indonesia was united. The 8 July launch date was selected to ensure that the ... 17 Aug., when Indonesia celebrated its 31st anniversary of independence. Produced by Hughes Aircraft , the Palapa satellites would be identical to the Telesat Canada and Westar satellites except for antenna modifications ...

... of Palapa spacecraft. The new satellites would replace existing communications satellites: Palapa A-1 , launched July 8, 1976, and Palapa A-2 , launched March 10, 1977. The Shuttle would launch the first Palapa B ...

... . EDT the next day the crew launched a $40 million Palapa B communications satellites for the government of Indonesia. Two previous Palapas launched by the United States were providing communications to Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Palapa B, twice the size of the earlier communications satellite could increase television and telephone traffic ...

... were deployed from the Space Shuttle, one being WESTAR VI and the other one being PALAPA-B2, and they malfunctioned, both of them, leaving them in useless orbits. It seems to ... and an inch in diameter, that was called an antenna snubber. When the WESTAR and PALAPA satellites were to get up on orbit to operate, the circular reflectors would be released ... , and then rendezvoused with WESTAR—sorry. I forget whether we picked up WESTAR first or PALAPA. But all this unique hardware that McDonnell Douglas and Hughes had developed, Dale Gardner tried ...

NASA launched Palapa 2 (formerly Palapa-B), an Indonesian telecommunications satellite, from the Eastern Test Range at Cape Canaveral on a ... a transfer orbit with 36 499km apogee, 231.2km perigee, and inclination of 24.6°. Palapa 2, second Indonesian domestic comsat, would use its apogee kick motor Mar. 12 to move ...

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