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Subject: Night Launching
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Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 15:08:49 EDT
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From:  Clive Dawson <CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>

A few weeks ago somebody questioned the necessity of a night launch,
given that Cape Canaveral and the ultimate destination of the Indian
Communications Satellite are fixed relative to each other regardless
of what orientation the earth has at any given time.  Was this question
ever answered?  If so, could somebody send me a message with the
explanation?  (I left town and missed several digests.)

Thanks,

Clive

P.S. The only theory I can come up with is that the deployment sequence
makes use of certain fixed stars for navigation and/or they want it to
happen at a certain time of day in India (or Houston).
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