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From: alb@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: RMS Flexed
Message-ID: <2175@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 07:26:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.2175
Posted: Thu Sep  1 07:26:13 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 16:57:09 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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The astronauts yesterday flexed the remote manipulator system
and tested its strength in space by grappling a 7460 pound
dummy satellite and moving it around the cargo bay.  It was
the heaviest payload the arm has lifted yet.  On STS-13, the
arm will grapple the 5000 pound sun observatory satellite,
bring it into the cargo bay for repair, and then redeploy it
in orbit.