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From: yee@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS-35 TV transmissions (Forwarded)
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Date: 27 Aug 90 19:12:26 GMT
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Les Gaver
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                    August 21, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-8372)

N90-66

NOTE TO EDITORS: STS-35 TV TRANSMISSIONS 

     STS-35/ASTRO-1 Space Shuttle mission (currently scheduled 
for a Sept. 1 launch) television programming will be transmitted 
daily via the following satellite to accomodate the Alaska and 
Hawaii audiences:

                           SPACENET 1
                         Transponder 17
                   120 degrees West Longitude
                       4040.0 MHz (Video)
                         6.8 MHz (Audio)

     Two-hour edited versions of each day's events will be 
transmitted via SPACENET 1 at:

         Sept. 1 and 8 - 1:35 a.m. to 3:35 a.m. EDT
         Sept. 2-7 and 9 - 12:01 a.m. to 2 a.m. EDT

     The continental United States will continue to receive NASA 
Select television, 24 hours a day throughout the mission, via:

                           SATCOM F2R
                         Transponder 13
                    72 degrees West Longitude
                        3960 MHz (Video)
                         6.8 MHZ (Audio)