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Article: Loral Skynet to Replace Components On Telstar 6 Satellite.
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- October 12, 1998
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998--
Satellite to Be Placed in Service in Second Quarter 1999
Loral Space and Communications announced today that Loral Skynet's Telstar 6 broadcast video and data communications satellite has been returned to the Space Systems/Loral facility in Palo Alto, California. The launch of the satellite has been rescheduled for the second quarter of 1999.
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the satellite manufacturer, was advised earlier by component provider AEG of Germany that the traveling wave tubes (TWTs) in the satellite assembly may be susceptible to thermally induced fatigue resulting in SS/L's postponement of the ...