SKYNET FAILS
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY (Florida), August 26. All signals had ceased from Britain’s second Skynet military communications satellite, launched into orbit from Cape Kennedy six days ago, officials said yesterday. The mysterious failure has dealt a hard blow to British plans for a fully operational military communications satellite system by the end of the year. It has also led N.A.T.O. to delay a satellite launch scheduled for September 30. The second N.A.T.O. satellite is virtually a copy of the Skynet. The satellite is silently drifting in space unable to perform its function as a backup to the first Skynet launched last November. Although Skynet I is working, Britain wanted a spare satellite before it could consider the military communications satellite system fully operational throughout the world.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32386, 27 August 1970, Page 15
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