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From: gwh@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Commercial Titan/Intelsat Launch Failure
Summary: Basic Info and a Request for Details
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Date: 16 Mar 90 03:33:49 GMT
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Reply-To: gwh@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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Yesterdays attempted launch of a commercial Titan III with an Intelsat VI
comsat aboard apparently failed.  From sketchy reports, it looks like the 
transfer stage did not seperate from the second stage, and the Intelsat VI
was stranded in LEO after being jettisoned from the second/kick stages after
the seperation failure.
	Reports [unconfirmed] stated that there was a loss of signal with the
	sattelite.
Additional reports from NORAD's space tracking people suggested that the 
Intelsat was in a orbit that was stable for at least twelve days, and could be
stabilized further with the use of the onboard thrusters.  

If anyone has better info that this please post it asap, as a large number of 
people are interested...  thanks

-George William Herbert