From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: IUS to Get First Workout Tomorrow
Article-I.D.: alice.1037
Posted: Sat Oct 30 09:44:15 1982
Received: Sun Oct 31 01:18:11 1982

The Inertial Upper Stage booster, designed to lift payloads carried
up in the shuttle into higher orbits, will get its first real workout
tomorrow.  Two satellites, DSCS Phases II and III, launched at 1205
EDT today by the new Titan booster, are now in a 95 to 120 miles orbit
around the Earth.  Tomorrow, their IUS's will ignite and, if they work,
will carry them up to geosynchronous orbits.