Comsat torpedoes Inmarsat plan for navigation satellites
A plan by the International Maritime Satellite consortium to launch navigation satellites built by Hughes was torpedoed by Comsat of the U.S., apparently because of Washington's policy that only GPS will be used in a projected system for navigation of civil aircraft. Because the stand of Comsat was...
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