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... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''SATCOM KU-1'''''
Image = Image:SATCOM_Ku-1_STS-61-C.jpg 200px Organization = GE American Communications, Inc. (United States) Major_Contractors = ... /nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=SATCOM%20KU-1 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle SATCOM KU-1 was a commercial communications satellites built by RCA and deployed by the STS 61 ...

... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''SATCOM KU-2'''''
Image = Image:SATCOM_Ku-2_STS-61-B.jpg 200px Organization = GE American Communications, Inc. (United States) Major_Contractors = ... /nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=SATCOM%20KU-2 Here Data Collection = Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle SATCOM KU-2 was a commercial communications satellite built by RCA and deployed from the STS 61 ...

... a 20-nation satellite organization, had finished initial technical and economic feasibility studies for an Arab satellite communications network and were beginning to define specific technical requirements for the system, Aviation ... for police work, weather broadcasting, civil aviation communications, and shipping, and to expand Arab technology into space. The Arab States Broadcasting Union estimated immediate need of 15 radio channels for direct broadcast ...

... was to nurture innovative spirits and entrepreneurial attitudes in youth ages 6–21 throughout the Arab world. The Foundation would accomplish this by creating activities to help develop the next generation ... .S. participants with valuable cultural exposure and experience working with international counterparts. ''NASA, “NASA and Arab Youth Venture Foundation Launch Student Program,” news release 09-271, 7 December 2009, http://www ...

... ) During November NASA would launch the first RCA Satcom Ku-Band satellite, KU-2, on Space Shuttle mission 61-B. Three RCA Satcom Ku-Band satellites would complement the operating Satcom C-Band ... would launch Mexico's Morelos B satellite, Australia's AUSSAT 2, and RCA's Satcom KU-2. Jerry Ross and Sherwood Spring would also take two long spacewalks to assemble 93 ...

Plans for an Arab communications satellite network were presented by Arab League engineer Salah Amir during a meeting with League Secretary General Mahmud Riyad in Cairo. ... completed in 1972. The network would establish radio, TV, and news agency links among the Arab states to transmit standard educational, cultural, and development programs. Fifty ground stations would be established ... the satellites and launch facilities would be paid by member states. ''(Cairo MENA, FBIS-Inter-Arab, 17 Jan 74, A6)'' The Air Force announced the award of a $1 553 500 ...

... "Eurab terminal," could display on the same screen one text in Arabic and another in Latin characters; although originally developed for Arabic, the system could display any alphabet. The Eurab terminal could ... with vowels included, making reading easier and unambiguous, and leading to wider use of Arabic in airports, banks, schools; television programs, or wherever display screens might be used. ( ESA Release ...

... background and where we are and this and that. I taught him some words in Arabic, and I was thinking that maybe I will give him a copy of the first ... languages. He didn’t have time to say them all, but he said at least Arabic, and he said, “Marhaba ahle el-ard, min Endeavour aleykum salam,” which is “Hello, people ... for sure. '''El-Baz:''' Very much so. Very much so. I take him to the Arab world; I take him to Oman and the southern part of Arabia to speak about ...

... the insulation; there was nothing else binding. And then we also had to do the Ku-antenna. It had failed. Its pointing mechanism had failed. If it doesn’t rotate correctly ... would have to jettison that before could close the payload bay doors to enter. The Ku-band assembly, just the antenna itself, is like a million dollars, and the digital avionics ... about it anymore. Now, that caused us problems orbiter-wise, because now to use the Ku, which the SIR-B antenna required for its high data rate, we had to point ...

... to end the activity of German rocket experts in the United Arab Republic, said that these experts were helping the Arabs to prepare a war against Israel. The West German government had officially deplored the participation of German scientists and military experts in Arab rocket projects, but had not interfered on the grounds that the group was composed of ...

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