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From: gumbyltd@brahms.berkeley.edu (Dmitry Gokhman)
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Subject: Re: Commercial Titan/Intelsat Launch Failure
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Date: 16 Mar 90 21:21:30 GMT
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In article <1990Mar16.033349.25657@agate.berkeley.edu> gwh@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) writes:
>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

From what I heard on the network news, the satellite was stranded but
stable (for longer than twelve days from the sound of it).  It is the
remaining stage(s) that are also in a similar orbit but with no means
of stabilization that is/are due to come down fairly soon hopefully
not on our heads.
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