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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: NASA STS-41/Ulysses television transmissions to Alaska and Hawaii (Forwarded)
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Date: 2 Oct 90 00:40:30 GMT
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Les Gaver
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                    October 1, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-8372)


N90-80 EDITORS NOTE:

NASA STS-41/ULYSSES TELEVISION TRANSMISSIONS TO ALASKA AND HAWAII 


     NASA Select television coverage of the STS-41/Ulysses Space 
Shuttle mission, currently scheduled for an Oct. 6 launch at 7:35 
a.m. EDT, 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 summarizing each day's events will 
be transmitted via SPACENET 1 from launch through landing from 
12:01 a.m. to 2 a.m. EDT.

     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)