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| INSIDE LOOK -- The BONUM-1 television satellite for Russia is shown in
the Hughes Space and Communications Company factory undergoing
testing, minus its 7-foot-diameter (2.2-meter) cylindrical solar
panels. Among the components that can be seen are, from the top: the
80-inch (2-meter) antenna, folded down; vertical black boxes
containing electronics for the eight high-power transponders; and
round, silver-colored fuel tanks. The satellite is scheduled for
launch Nov. 19 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The
spacecraft is owned by the BONUM-1 subsidiary of Moscow's Media Most. |
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