olympus

Comsat technology demonstration;19 deg W. Olympus-1 is a multi-payload communications satellite for direct TV broadcast in the bands of the 1977 Geneva Plan of
the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) (including a national beam to Italy) plus communication transponde s in the 14/12 GHz, 2nd 30/20 GHz bands. The
latter are also used for a data relay experiment with ESA's EURECA satellite.