Hughes sending HGS-1 around moon again
Hughes Global Services Inc. will send HGS-1 on a second lunar flyby to further improve the satellite's orbit around Earth. The communications satellite, launched into an incorrect orbit in December 1997 as Asiasat-3, was sent around the moon last week in an effort to put into a usable orbit. Instead...
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