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From: kwan@smeagol.UUCP (Richard Kwan)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Has Shuttle disaster killed Galileo?
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 19:21:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 19:21:18 1986
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In <895@h-sc1.UUCP>, Scott McCauley writes:

> I understand that the Galileo probe has a two-week launch window in March.
> The next window will be in two years. Since it is very unlikely that the
> Shuttle program will be reinstated by then, does this mean that Galileo is dead?
> Is there any way that this probe could be launched by other rockets in time?

I just called the public information office here.  The launch window is
actually about three weeks long going from the middle of May to the
first week in June.  The launch was originally scheduled for May 21.
It is now indefinitely postponed (pending, of course, what happens with
the shuttle).  The next window would otherwise be in June 1987.

	Rick Kwan
	JPL Spacecraft Data Systems group