Ukrainian rocket to orbit majority of Globalstar satellites

Loral's Globalstar venture said Friday that it has chosen Ukraine's Zenit-2 rocket to launch 36 of its mobile communications satellites into low-Earth orbit in 1998. Three Zenits launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will orbit the Globalstar satellites in bunches of 12. The rockets...

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