Satellite launched
The world’s biggest I telecommunications satellite' i has been launched on an Atlas Centaur rocket at Kennedy Space Centre. The satellite, known as the Intelsat V-B, is scheduled to reach a stationary orbit about 35,700 km above Earth.—Cape Canaveral.
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Press, 30 May 1981, Page 12
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