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Lushkov in space again

Moscow's mayor looks to buy Yamal satellite

Published: 8/23/1999

According to Interfax news agency, Yuri Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, has begun talks with rocket-maker, RKK Energiya, on a new telecommunications satellite, from the Yamal series. It is unclear what the satellite might be used for, except for broadcasting a TV channel. The Yamal-100 satellite costs $60m and is equipped with 10 transponders. A more powerful Yamal-200 version, at $100m, could carry more than 50 transponders. Moscow's media and telecommunications committee reportedly wants to buy a Yamal satellite for the city's TV channel, so allowing it to be broadcast across the Russian Federation. . The latter move, for the cynical, motivated by the national power ambitions of the city's mayor

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