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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS-40 TV transmissions (Forwarded)
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Date: 14 May 91 17:32:25 GMT
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Les Gaver
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                        May 14, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8372)

N91-35

NOTE TO EDITORS: STS-40 TV TRANSMISSIONS 

     STS-40 Space Shuttle mission (currently scheduled for a May 22 
launch) television programming will be transmitted daily via the 
following satellite to accomodate the Alaska and Hawaii audiences:

 SPACENET 1
  Transponder 18
 120 degrees West Longitude
 4060.0 MHz (Video)
 6.8 MHz (Audio)

     Two-hour edited versions of each day's events will be 
transmitted via SPACENET 1: May 23 through landing - Midnight to 2 
a.m. Eastern time

     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)


	Television schedules will be available via computer by dialing 
713/483-5817 and by phone at 202/755-1788.