SATELLITE MODEL.—Engineers at the Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, California, looking at a full-scale model of the Intelsat IV communications satellite that will be launched into orbit 22,300 miles above the earth early in 1971. The company is building four of the satellites. Intelsat IV will be capable of carrying simultaneously nearly 6000 two-way telephone calls, 12. colour television programmes, or various combinations of voice and video transmissions.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 16
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69SATELLITE MODEL.—Engineers at the Hughes Aircraft Company in El Segundo, California, looking at a full-scale model of the Intelsat IV communications satellite that will be launched into orbit 22,300 miles above the earth early in 1971. The company is building four of the satellites. Intelsat IV will be capable of carrying simultaneously nearly 6000 two-way telephone calls, 12. colour television programmes, or various combinations of voice and video transmissions. Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32117, 13 October 1969, Page 16
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