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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 ...

... ) 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ; NASA Release 68-198; FRC Release 26-68; AP, B Sun, 11/14/68, A10; LATNS, W Post, 11/14/68, A22)'' NASA announced it had assigned Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford ...

... evolution was proceeding throughout universe. Hydroxyl was considered a chemical essential to evolution of life. ''(LATNS, W Post, 7/15/71, A3; B Sun, 7/19/71)'' Marshall Space Flight Center ...

... deemed most likely to be habitats for life. ''(Sullivan, NYT, 12/10/71, 29; Miles, LATNS, W Post, 12/19/71, A41)'' November 1971 November December 1971 December Dec 1 1971 ...

... , Brazil would become the third country in the world with a nationwide domestic comsat system. ''(LATNs, Today; 3/16/73)'' A crew escape module was being tested by the Air Force ...

... into earth orbit Oct. l, but the project collapsed with West Germany's defection. ''(Kent, LATNS, M Her, 6/1/73)'' U.S. Patent No. 3 730 287 was granted to ...

... higher and that Thiokol 's proposed design would not meet program objectives without major revision. ''(LATNS, Today, 10 Jan 74; NASA Release 74-130)'' A photograph of the U.S.S ...

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