A total of 36 Silver Awards were given for 1997. Vyvx Kansas City Teleport, managed by Bud Turner, was one of 86 recipients of the Bronze Award for 53 flawless uplinks. Only 134 teleports received a Loral Skynet Uplinker Award this year. To be eligible, a teleport must have performed at least 50 flawless accesses to a Loral satellite. Although the Vyvx teleport at Steele Valley had flawless service to Loral satellites, there were only 37 accesses during the year on the Loral Skynet system, which owns the Telstar satellite fleet.
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