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... from Eastern Test Range on three-stage, long-tank, thrust-augmented Thor-Delta launch vehicle. Anik 1 was placed in highly elliptical transfer orbit with apogee of 36 470 km (22 ... South America. Under contract between NASA and Telesat Canada, NASA mission objective was to place Anik l in orbit of sufficient accuracy to allow onboard propulsion systems to place spacecraft in ... thrust-augmentation rockets from Cape Kennedy . Third stage was TE-364-4 solid-fueled motor. Anik 1 -first of two-was built by Hughes Aircraft Co. under contract with Telesat and ...

... Times, 7/20/73, 7)'' April 20-30: Canadian domestic communications satellite Telesat-B ­named Anik 2 , Eskimo for brother-was successfully launched at 6:47 pm EST from Eastern Test ... of South America. Under NASA-Telesat Canada contract, the NASA mission objective was to place Anik 2 into an orbit of sufficient accuracy to allow the spacecraft propulsion systems to place ... ­time requirements. The objective was met and the mission was adjudged a success April 30. Anik 2 -second in a series of Canadian domestic communications satellites-was built by Hughes Aircraft ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-D2 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India. The main payload was ... transponders that would provide voice and video transmissions to India and neighboring countries. The GSLV-D2 also carried into orbit experimental payloads: a Coherent Radio Beacon Experiment, a Solar X-ray ... Transistor, and a Surface Change Monitor. However, its main mission was to test the GSLV-D2, an improved version of the GSLV first launched in April 2001. (Spacewarn Bulletin, no. 595 ...

... by NASA for Telesat/Canada, which owned and operated the satellites. Telesat-D would replace Anik A1 , launched in Nov. 1972 and positioned at 109°W over the equator south of ... gather data on signal propagation and on power generation and usage. NASA planned to launch Anik-C1 and -C2 spacecraft (Telesat-E and -F) on the Space Shuttle in 1981, to replace Anik A2 and A3 (Telesat B and C) launched in April 1973 and May 1975, respectively ...

NASA announced signing of agreements with Telesat Canada for launch of five Anik Communications satellites, four on the Shuttle and one on a Delta. The launches would cost ... million; the spacecraft would be worth about $130 million. The third-and fourth-generation Anik C and Anik D communications satellites would be the backbone of Canada's system until the 1990s ... launched in August from KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ; the next Telesat launch would be an Anik C , one of two communications satellites scheduled for the Shuttle's fifth flight and first ...

... imaging. Two communications satellites, Intelsat-IV F-7 for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization and Anik 2 Canadian domestic comsat, were successfully launched, as well as Nnss 0-20 Transit navigational ... ; NASA SP-5119; NASA Release 73-281)'' In its program of international cooperation, NASA launched Anik 2 domes-tic communications satellite for Telesat Canada and Intelsat-IV F-7 for Communications ...

... spite of this, Telesat chose to give the contract for Canada's first communication satellite, Anik-A, to the Hughes Aircraft Company in California. This led to a protracted and highly ... the manufacturing arena. Soon a production line of Hughes satellites went into operation at SPAR. Anik-A would be launched in 1972 making Canada the first country to operate a geostationary ... of being received by dishes as small as 0.6m and would lead to the Anik C and D series of broadcast satellites launched in the 1980s by the Space Shuttle ...

... said in a Washington Star article. But when it happened 7 May – Explorer 53 and Anik 3 -it "drew less coverage than two swallows returning to Capistrano." At a total cost ... Small Astronomy Satellite would study x-ray sources within and beyond the Milky Way, and Anik 3 would transmit communications back and forth across Canada. The NASA space budget for FY ...

... signals through ionized barium plasmas. ''(WS Release 67-32; UPI, W Star, 10/4/67, D2)'' NASA Aerobee 150 sounding rocket was launched from White Sands Missile Range WSMR to 114 ...

... Advancement of Science by Dr. Louis H. Fuchs. ‘‘(Henry, Wash. Eve. Stat, 9/7/66, D2)’’ September 1966 September Sep 1 1966 1 Sep 2 1966 2 Sep 3 1966 3 ...

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