Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!mike From: mike@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle on Mission: Impossible Message-ID: <191800015@trsvax> Date: 13 Nov 89 16:41:00 GMT References: <3330023@hpindda.HP.COM> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:hpindda.HP.COM:3330023:trsvax:191800015:000:431 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!mike Nov 13 10:41:00 1989 The satellite was a Hughes 380, the most commonly deployed communications satellite. Okay, so it wasn't in geostationary orbit. I can remember at least two of those babies (Palapa and Westar) that ended up like that thanks to Morton Thiokol. Mike Hardeman (mike@trsvax.UUCP) Tandy Research and Development (817) 390-2112 The opinions expressed here are not those of Tandy Corporation (I don't think they even know I work here)