Telestar 14R Arrives In Baikonur for May Launch

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Commercial satellite builder Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., said April 20 that th Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 satellite arrived that morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for a late May launch aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M rocket provided by Reston, Va.-based International Launch Services. "It is a great credit to the combined efforts of Space Systems/Loral and Tele-sat that Telstar 14R/Estrela do Sul 2 was completed in less than two year's time," Dan Goldberg, president and chief ex- ecutive officer of Ottawa, Canada-based Telesat said in a prepared statement.