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WASHINGTON, May 5, 1997 /PRNewswire/ -- The first five of 66 IRIDIUM satellites were successfully launched on a McDonnell Douglas Delta II rocket today from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA. The launch marks an important step toward Iridium LLC's goal of providing global wireless voice, paging, facsimile and data services worldwide by late 1998.
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The two satellites were the Intelsat 11, which will provide broadcast and data communications services to Latin America, and the Optus D2, which will serve Australia and New Zealand. The payload mass for the two satellites was 4832 kg.
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GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Researchers armed with data from two NASA satellites have invented a way to map the fleeting changes in coastal water quality from space. The task long had evaded researchers and coastal managers relying only on ground-based data.
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Data transmitted from the satellite provides the user with time, precise orbital position of the satellite, and the position of other satellites in the system. Currently, there is a full constellation of 24 orbiting satellites devoted to navigation.
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