Energetics Satellites Corp, Englewood, Colorado, which wants to offer a vehicle tracking service – car hire companies, rail wagon and container operators, inshore craft operators, trucking companies and such would fit small radio transmitters to their vehicles so that they could keep an eye on them and know where to look for misplaced ones, has commissioned the first Soviet launch of a US satellites: it has signed with Space Commerce Inc and Glavcosmos, the Soviet civilian space agency, to hitch rides for its satellites alongside bigger payloads on a Soviet rocket; launches will cost it a mere $6.5m a time, and two have been booked for last quarter 1990 and early 1991, with another six in the plan later.
