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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Spartan Launched -- Laser Test Rescheduled
Message-ID: <3877@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 19:56:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 19:56:52 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Jun-85 02:37:29 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Spartan-1 was deployed by the Discovery crew today.  The satellite
will scan the stars for sources of X-rays, concentrating on the
center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where astronomers believe exists
a black hole.  The satellite will be retrieved in two days and
returned to Earth.

Meanwhile, NASA rescheduled the test of a low powered laser
system for 0730 EDT Friday.  The laser is to be fired from a
mountaintop observatory and reflected by the shuttle.  A
measurement given to the shuttle's autopilot was in feet
instead of nautical miles, so the shuttle thought the mountaintop
was 9000 miles above the Earth instead of a little over a
mile and a half; the result was that the mirror ended up on
the wrong side of the ship.