Splashed down.Splashed Down: A rocket launched in the mid-Pacific Ocean by Sea Launch Co. of Long Beach exploded, destroying the rocket and its payload. The Boeing Co.-built commercial communications satellite communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to was insured. Damages to the launch pad and the overall cost of the mishap (language) MISHAP - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. were under evaluation and no injuries were reported. The rocket, which was being launched from a converted oil rig on the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, was carrying an NSS-8 satellite built at Boeing's El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and factory. The satellite was built for Netherlands-based SES New Skies SES NEW SKIES, formerly New Skies Satellites (NSS), is a Dutch operator of communications spacecraft, owned by SES. On November 30, 1998, the Intelsat 703 spacecraft was transferred to New Skies’ control. New Skies operates this and four other spacecraft. . Before this failed effort, the company had launched 20 consecutive successful missions. |
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