-LORAL SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS: Loral Skynet extends testing period on Telstar 6 satellite.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-30 September 1998-LORAL SPACE AND COMMUNICATIONS: Loral Skynet extends testing period on Telstar 6 satellite (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280998 -- Company postpones launch to end of November Loral Space and Communications announced today that the launch of Loral Skynet's Telstar 6 broadcast video and data communications satellite scheduled for launch October 15, 1998, on a Proton rocket has been postponed and is expected to be rescheduled for the end of November.

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the satellite manufacturer, was notified by component provider AEG of Germany that the traveling wave tubes (TWTs) in the satellite assembly may be susceptible to thermally induced fatigue, requiring several weeks for tube modification and...