GENERAL

First Arab Telecommunications Satellite is Launched 

Arabsat 1, the first Arab communications satellite which will provide telephone, television, data and radio tranmissions for 22 Arab states in the Middle East and North Africa, was launched into orbit on 8 February on board a French Ariane rocket fired from a launching site in Kouron, French Guyana. The satellite, which will become operational next month in an orbit 36,000 kms. above earth, will serve through a base station...