International fleet of rockets will launch ICO platforms

Hughes and London-based ICO Global Communications have picked launch vehicles from the U.S., Russia and Ukraine to place ICO's planned 12 mobile telephone relay satellites into medium Earth orbit (MEO), beginning late in 1998. The first of the modified Hughes HS 601-series ICO platforms will be...

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