Aerospatiale to build biggest civil communications satellite
Luxembourg's Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) has awarded Aerospatiale a contract to build the world's largest commercial communications satellite, the Astra 1K. The 5,000kg Astra 1K, which will be launched on an Ariane or Proton booster in 2000, will be a Spacebus 3000B3S spacecraft bus, equipped with nine Alcatel ...
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