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From: polish@garfield.columbia.edu (Nathaniel Polish)
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Subject: Re: Launch naming scheme - Revisited
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 17:00:25 EST
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The numbers are for when the mission was started.  The naming convention
comes from the naming of commercial satalite launches where the number is
from the year the contact was signed.  They do this so that they have 
some why to talk about a mission from the outset.