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- From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
- Subject: Re: Failure of Aussat B2 Satellite!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150204.15823@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
- Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
- References: <9212220830.17640@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:02:04 GMT
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- johnh@CS.MU.OZ.AU writes:
-
- > Just heard that the recent launch of Aussat B2 was unsuccessful
- > due to the satellite (HS601 I think) failing to communicate
- > with ground control.
-
- This is from today's Raleigh News & Observer, reprinted without
- permission:
-
- BEIJING -- A U. S.-made satellite launched with fanfare by China
- disappeared Tuesday and the U. S. maker, Hughes Space and Communication
- Co., was trying to find out whether it had been lost in space.
-
- But the Chinese company that launched the satellite on Monday went ahead
- with its celebration banquet and refused to comment on the
- disappearance. China has struggled to compete in the international
- launch industry.
-
- Officials from the Australian company Optus Communications, which owns
- the satellite, and Hughes, of El Segundo, California, did not attend the
- banquet.
-
- --
- Jay Novello jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
- University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
-