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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Bill LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Program-related acronyms
Keywords: acronyms
Message-ID: <1015@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 89 14:36:09 GMT
References: <135@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> <298@opus.NMSU.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Bill LeFebvre)
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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In article <298@opus.NMSU.EDU> lesc@dante.UUCP (Leif Kirschenbaum) writes:
>The antennas don't appear to move at all.

No, they wouldn't.  The TDRS satellites are geosynchronous.  The objects
in orbit that use the system (such as the shuttle) track the satellites.

One interesting side-effect of the shuttle using TDRSS is that there
is no longer a re-entry LOS (or "blackout").  Did anyone else notice
that on the last flight?

>WSSH White Sands Space Harbor

HEY!  There's another one.  I been wondering what the "SH" stood for.

		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>