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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (873)	11/27/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Respond to of 904

Here's a more recent story dated 11/25/99 stating Proton Grounded Until March spaceviews.com

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (873)	11/28/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Manfred Sondermann	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 904

The three launches of CDRD were originally scheduled on 01/17/00, march and may. CDRD said a few weeks ago that the first launch might be delayed, but this will not affect the service launch in Q4/00. CDRD already has chanched the rocket from an Ariane to the Proton in spring 99 because a Proton would be the better vehicle to get the sats into an elliptical orbit. (This change cost them about $25 million). The did this change because they originally planed two GEOs those days and then Loral suggested them to take 3 elliptical orbits instead because of a better angle between the car and the sats, so they need much less repeaters. I do not think that another changes of the rocket is planed.