Mir crew launches German geodetic satellite in commercial venture.
Crewmen on the Russian space station Mir have launched a small German geodetic satellite in a commercial venture designed to produce some cash for the hard-pressed Russian space program. The GFZ-1 satellite is a 44-pound sphere studded with laser reflectors that will permit Earth-based scientists to...
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