Posted on 06/22/2002 1:43:27 PM PDT by klpt
The launch of a Russian rocket carrying a U.S. television satellite has been postponed because of technical problems, a news agency reported Saturday.
The Echostar-8 satellite was to have been launched on a Russian Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
The launch was delayed until July 18 because there were some technical problems with the Echostar-8 satellite, the news agency said.
Remember Iridium, the company that went bankrupt after launching all those satellites that sometimes catch the sun on the big solar panels and flash in the night sky? The Iridium that used those huge handheld phones and cost a lot of money to call anywhere in the world? Iridium is still around.
Vaguely recollect the DOD bailed Motorola out on that one. Don't remember the details, other than the supposed need for bandwidth.
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