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From: p515dfi@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: STS-40 Press Kit
Message-ID: <2064@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 22 May 91 15:58:57 GMT
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Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <91142.084340TNEDDERH@ESOC.BITNET> TNEDDERH@ESOC.BITNET (Thorsten Nedderhut) writes:
>About the Challenger performing the ATO: is it true that is payload was the
>german funded D2 mission (Spacelab for microgravity environment? And what were
>its foreseen and actual orbits?

No, it was an astronomical mission that used only the SL platform as a means
of transporting telescopes (similar to Astro-1). D2 came later that year, and 
then the orbiter was gone...