what's the largest geo sat ever built

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 05 2005 - 08:15:36 EDT

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What's the largest geo sat ever built?

To me it's the us military one's, called milstars. From what I can tell, milstars main body are
bigger then this one.

Kevin

--- Robert Holdsworth <robbonz1@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Arianespace reports that THAICOM4 (IPSTAR) will be launched  from Kourou on 
> 11 July on Ariane 5s with a launch window from 0640 to 0840 UTC.
> 
> It will be the largest geosat ever built.
> 
> There will be live video coverage from final countdown to insertion into geo 
> transfer orbit at http://www.arianespace.com

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