Sea Launch Orbits Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1

Credit: SEA LAUNCH
Sea Launch orbited Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1, a big K u-band communications satellite for the Brazilian market and inflight Internet services, in its first launch of the year. However, a deployment problem on one of the satellite's solar arrays threatened its long-term service life. The company's...

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