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From: jdd@allegra.UUCP (John DeTreville)
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Subject: Re: Solar Max Mission Failure/Success
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Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 17:12:39 EST
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    From: AC%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
    Newsgroups: net.space
    Subject: Solar Max Mission Failure/Success
    Date: Tue, 10-Apr-84 08:52:33 EST

    From:  Anthony J. Courtemanche <AC%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA>

       But the way it is now, we may run out of fuel and have to end the
       mission as an 80% failure, it's gonna be close as I type this on
       Monday evening.

         ...The failure was (as I understand it) only with the device
    that was to attach with the pin on the Solar Max.  To me that
    indicates only that a small piece of machinery isn't up to par.

Yes, well, but the fact that they'd found only one "small" problem \so far/
doesn't mean they mightn't have found fifty or sixty more later.  Being able
to get close to a satellite may still a long ways from being able to repair
one.

Cheers,
John ("Space Cadet") DeTreville
Bell Labs, Murray Hill