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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 249.05
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
September 5, 2004
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**The Lockheed Martin A2100 communications satellite fleet has
achieved a major milestone by accumulating 100 years of successful
in-orbit operations. The A2100 satellite series, designed and
manufactured at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS),
currently consists of 24 satellites featuring 900 transponders
with an accumulated lifetime of over 4,000 years of successful
operations in orbit. The first A2100 satellite, AMC-1, was
launched Sept. 8, 1996. AMC-15, a hybrid Ku/Ka-band satellite, is
scheduled for launch later this year by International Launch
Services (ILS), a Lockheed Martin joint venture, aboard a Proton
launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
--PRNewswire
** It was the starting point for dozens of commercial
communications satellites, military spacecraft and pioneering
space probes, including the first man-made object to journey
outside our solar system. But after 42 years of Atlas rocket
launches, pad 36A saw its final blastoff on August 31. Following
the booster's Earth-shaking climb into orbit, launch team members
hunkered down in the Complex 36 Blockhouse positioned 1,400 feet
away from the pad took a moment to salute the historic site.
--SpaceFlightNow
** At a time when the nation's wireless companies are increasingly
desperate for more airwaves to serve a fast-growing base of 160
million customers, little-known NextWave Telecom Inc. has networks
up and running in 26 markets but has never served a single paying
customer. NextWave's wireless licenses are the 21st-century
equivalent of undeveloped beachfront property. After winning a
battle with the FCC over its airwaves that went all the way to the
Supreme Court, the New York-based company is preparing to put them
to use. It plans to emerge from bankruptcy protection next month,
and either open for business or sell its rights to the airwaves
for what many analysts believe could be about $3 billion.
--Yahoo
** Iran intends to launch its first satellite into space in April
2005. The satellite, code-named Mesbah (lantern), is said to weigh
60 kilograms (132 pounds) and is cube-shaped with each side
measuring 50 centimetres (20 inches). It's planned to be put into
orbit at an altitude of 900 kilometres (about 560 miles). "The
satellite will be used to identify natural resources, control the
electrical and energy network (gas and oil), and later on can be
used by communications and crisis management," press reports said.
--SpaceDaily
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