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Subject: STS Launch windows
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Date: Fri, 5-Aug-83 13:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  5 13:07:00 1983
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From:  Tom Wadlow <TAW@S1-A>

One major factor is that NASA always tries to deploy a satellite in
full daylight.  That, plus a minimum fuel boost to the right slot in
geosynch and a (usually futile, I suspect) try at getting the deployment
to happen when the shuttle can talk to the ground (not very often, just yet)
add up to a fairly small set of launch windows.  --Tom