Sat-na April 14, 1997

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:20:16 -0400
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Sat-na

                                                 
                                                   April, 14
                                                        1997


                  This week in Sat-na
                              
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  In Brief
                              
         ARIANESPACE Flight 95 Scheduled for April 16


         All checks on the ARIANESPACE spacecraft-launcher
adapter have been satisfactorily completed in Kourou, and
the launch preparation campaign has resumed.
     Lift-off of the ARIANE 44LP, the version of the
European launcher equipped with 2 liquid and 2 solid strap-
on boosters, is now scheduled for Wednesday, April 16,
between:

    10:59 p.m. and 11:41 p.m. GMT,
      7:59 p.m. and 8:41 p.m. Kourou time,
    12:59 a.m. and 1:41 a.m. Paris time,
      5:59 a.m. and 6:41 a.m. Bangkok time,
      7:59 a.m. and 8:41 a.m. Tokyo time,
      6:59 p.m. and 7:41 p.m. Washington time (EDT).

         ARIANESPACE Flight 95 will put into orbit the
Thaicom 3 telecommunications satellite for Thailand, and the
BSAT-1a direct broadcast satellite for Japan.
                              
                    PanAmSat Tops Record

     PanAmSat has beamed nearly 20,000 hours of special
events and   news coverage over its global satellite system
during the first three   months of 1997. Total special
events and part-time transmission traffic for the quarter
was the highest in PanAmSat's history.
     Among the events transmitted during the quarter over
PanAmSat's global   satellite system:

"    Continuing coverage of the Peruvian hostage crisis.
 Since the hostage situation began in mid-December 1996,
 PanAmSat has provided almost 13,000 hours of service over
 its PAS-1 and PAS-3 Atlantic Ocean Region satellites for
 more than 30 broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, CNN, Fuji,
 NHK, Nippon TV, TBS and TV Asahi.

"    Live, ongoing coverage of the Cricket Tour of the West
 Indies over PAS-3 for nearly 30 Caribbean Broadcasting Union
 member stations
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