COLUMBIA/TDRSS AOR-II Completes Testing -- Crawford Communications to be First on Board.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 2, 1996--Columbia Communications Corporation announced today that testing of the COLUMBIA/TDRSS AOR-II (TDRS-6) satellite has been completed. The spacecraft is in station-kept orbit, located at 47 degrees West longitude. This is the newest satellite in the COLUMBIA/TDRSS series and is immediately available for transmission of the Centennial Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. being held in Atlanta from July 19, through August 5. At the same time, Columbia announced a new alliance with Crawford Communications of Atlanta. Crawford has dedicated a 9.3 meter antenna to the new COLUMBIA/TDRSS satellite. This new service is fully operational and available for the Olympic Games. Crawford's Jim Schuster also noted that there is limited capacity remaining for the Olympics and that Columbia is the only space segment provider with available C-Band analog capacity. The footprint of Columbia's new satellite stretches from Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. . Ken Gross, Columbia's Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. added, "We believe Crawford Communications brings immense experience and expertise to the Olympics communications arena as they have in all the many services they provide. We are very happy to have them aboard as our first AOR-II customer and as a new member of our SkyWay sky·way n. 1. A route regularly used by airplanes; an air lane. 2. An elevated highway. Noun 1. skyway - a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another Alliance." Crawford Communications is a full service telecommunications facility, providing video production, editing and transmission services plus animation services and multimedia production capabilities. Crawford serves a nationwide client base with projects ranging from complete video post production for a weekly broadcast series, to origination of cable networks, to development of consumer CD-ROMs. Columbia recently finalized agreement with NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. to operate the commercial C-Band payload on-board the space agency's TDRS-6 satellite, which commenced on July 1, 1996. The satellite joins COLUMBIA/TDRSS AOR AOR The ISO 4217 currency code for Angolan Reajustado Kwanza. and POR POR problem-oriented record. POR abbr. problem-oriented record POR Problem-Oriented Record. and is marketed as COLUMBIA/TDRSS AOR-II. Columbia Communications markets its SkyWay family of domestic, international and maritime telecommunications to a wide variety of commercial and governmental users throughout Asia, North America and Europe. These services are provided via the COLUMBIA/TDRSS Satellite System -- the backbone of the company's numerous voice, data and video service offerings. Columbia maintains offices and operations in the Washington D.C. area and in Honolulu. CONTACT: Columbia Communications Corp. Kenneth Gross, 301/907-8800 Raymond Sweeney, 800/533-0033 |
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