Notes on 80-lb "Early Bird" communications satellite built by Hughes Aircraft Co for Communications Satellite Corp; it will provide 240 two-way telephone channels between Europe and North America, two-way TV broadcasts, and will also carry teletype and photo-facsimile equipment; after being launched by Thrust-Augmented Delta rocket, and directed into near synchronous orbit by solid propellant motor at fourth apogee, hydrogen peroxide control jets will bring satellite to desired 27.5°W longitude position over Atlantic at height of 22,300 mi, and reorient its attitude; photograph is included.
"Early bird" communications satellite
Engineer
Engineer ; 219 , n 5695
1965
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Early Bird I Communications Parameters
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