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Geostar-MSS

A third Lavochkin vision in association with Moscow NII Radiocommunication is the creation of a GEO and highly elliptical communications system analogous to Applied Mechanics' Marathon. Dubbed Geostar-MSS, the constellation would consist of three spacecraft in GEO and four spacecraft in Molniya-type orbits. The yet-to-be-defined satellites would be equipped with Ku-band transponders. The program appeared to be in an early stage of development in 1994, and no date for a first launch was set (Reference 359).

359. Y. Gornostayev, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 32, 37.

Sources and Resources

• Adapted from: Europe and Asia in Space 1993-1994, Nicholas Johnson and David Rodvold [Kaman Sciences / Air Force Phillips Laboratory]

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