Beskrivning : Numbered cover with silk cachet and double Cape Canaveral seal for OTS 1&2 launches. The first of the pair of OTS satellites (OTS-1) were lost at launch in the failure of its US Delta launcher in September 1977. OTS-2 was successfully launched in 1978, again using the Delta rocket and became one of the first geostationary communications satellites to carry six Ku-band transponders and was capable of handling 7,200 telephone circuits.

K 119 B - picture enhanced ?

Sida : kourou 220   · Ref: K  119 B

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OTS 2 (SATELLITE) · DELTA 3914 · ORBITAL TEST SATELLITE