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...feel a lot of me flying up there with them." Hoffman said in a telephone interview the night before last Thursday's march. He added that he had had dinner with the astronauts just prior to their departure for the Cape Canaveral. Fla,. launch site...
While Hoffman says he's not scared by the possibility of an accident his mother says that she "is naturally apprehensive and nervous about it," and especially anxious about the prospect of her son's first launch into the void of space...
...built by Hughes Aircraft Co. and owned by Telesat Canada, a partly public, partly private Canadian firm, and Satellite Business Systems, formed as a joint venture by IBM, Aetna Life & Casualty Co. and Comsat. Each of the two companies will pay NASA about $9 million to launch its "bird." Once in orbit, the satellites will form links in what is rapidly be coming a vast and complex corporate telecommunications highway 22,300 miles above the surface of the earth...
...reason for the industry's bright business outlook is, in a word, economy. A typical telecommunications satellite can cost up to $75 million to manufacture, launch and monitor while in orbit above the earth. But that expense is small compared with the burdens involved in laying thousands of miles of cable across a continent or even an ocean...
...best way to get transponder prices down is to increase the supply of satellites. More are on the way. NASA is coming under competitive pressure for launching services from the eleven-nation European Space Agency's Ariane project, which is booked solid for launches beginning late next year and running through 1985. Meanwhile, a no-frills private-enterprise launching service, Space Services Inc., successfully tested a launch rocket last summer at Matagorda Island, Texas. The prototype rocket, dubbed Conestoga I, was built in part from spare NASA assemblies, including the motor from a solid-fuel Minuteman missile. The firm...