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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Re:  GPS Satellite Constellation Status
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Date: 24 Oct 90 04:35:25 GMT
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Richard,

Space Command, hey? Last I boogied with the Spacetrack boys at Cheyenne
Mountain they lost our recently launched AMSAT OSCAR 7 satellite put
up by the radio hams circa 1974. Seems they assigned a catalog number
that really belonged to the booster. We had a tough time convincing
them of the error, which we quickly found by watching the acquisition
times of the satellite beacon. I used to run the OSCAR HF communication
network, which is how I came by that story first hand. I say this only
to cast some doubt that all the NASA catalog numbers are correct. Heck
the Russians generate at least tem times the catalog numbers than we
do.

Dave