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To: Sawtooth who wrote (21148)	1/11/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Boeing & Globalstar> Can Boeing Rescue Globalstar? Wired News Report 7:30 a.m. 11.Jan.99.PST Beset by political troubles and launch problems that have slowed its deployment of satellites, Globalstar has turned to Boeing to get its global cellular communications network off the ground. Boeing said Monday it will launch 28 Globalstar satellites on a total of seven Delta II rockets, six in 1999 and one in 2000. In a press release, the company said the launches will use two versions of the Delta II and will take place at Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida and California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Florida launches will come in the second quarter of 1999 through the first quarter of 2000, and the two California flights will come in the final quarter of 1999. Whether this schedule would put Globalstar (GSTRF) back on track to have its system up and running by the third quarter of the year wasn't immediately clear. It has eight satellites in orbit now -- launched (BA) on Delta IIs in early 1998 -- and industry sources have said it must launch at least 32 satellites by June or July this year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Globalstar, a consortium led by Loral Space & Communications (LOR), had 12 satellites destroyed last September when a rocket blew up shortly after launch in Russia. Since then, the company has been a victim of failing diplomacy: Negotiations on the Technical Safeguards Agreement, which sets out the terms for launching American rockets and satellites from a Russian military base inside Kazakhstan, have stalled as US-Russian relations have frayed.