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...while last week, one of NASA's new customers, Telesat Canada, had some anxious moments. Both satellites were safely ejected and climbed swiftly to geostationary orbit, 22,300 miles above the equator, where they would travel in synch with the earth's rotation. But before Telesat's Anik 3-C reached its resting place over the Pacific, controllers discovered that they were unable to "talk" to the satellite on any of the programmed frequencies. The radio silence perplexed and panicked Telesat's control room on Guam. Unless Anik (Inuit for brother) accepted their commands, the controllers...
...third in a series of commercial communications satellites owned by Satellite Business Systems, a partnership of IBM, Comsat General and Aetna Life & Casualty. It was one of two look-alike satellites carried aloft by Columbia on its fifth voyage. The other, called Anik C-3 and owned by Telesat Canada, which runs that country's satellite communications, was launched with equal ease a day later. Both satellites are among the most advanced examples of electronic wizardry in orbit. About 21 ft. long, 7 ft. wide and weighing 1,300 lbs. apiece, excluding their boosters, they will provide thousands...
Aboard the craft will be two satellites, each weighing about 1,400 lbs., 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...
Along this highway already flows a torrent of information, from stock and bond quotes for banks and brokerage houses, to telephone conversations, to sitcoms and first-run movies for networks and cable TV companies. Telesat's new Anik C3 will speed the flood along by strengthening Canadian telephone service, as well as by bringing addi tional pay television programming to cable operators and, through them, to the homes of cable TV subscribers throughout Canada. Meanwhile, SBS's satellite, SBS-3, will be targeted toward the U.S. market, offering long-distance direct-dial service to consumers at rates lower...
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