Atlas launches first U.S. mobile voice communications satellite
The first satellite aimed at enabling seamless cellular telephone service across the U.S. was successfully placed in geostationary transfer orbit Friday by a Lockheed Martin Atlas rocket. American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s (AMSC) MSAT-1 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas IIA at 7:47...
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