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From: kenny@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Losing a shuttle
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Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 15:45:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 15:45:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!kenny    Mar 23 14:45:00 1986


I'm *really* getting confused by all the statements that ``our satellite
launch capability is gone as long as the shuttles are grounded'' and
so on.

I realize that we've lost our capability for really big payloads (even the
few dozen Titan III's we have around don't have anything like the Shuttle's
capacity), but I haven't read anywhere that Delta and Scout launches have
been suspended for the duration of the present emergency.  Have I missed
an announcement to that effect?

(Incidentally, the Delta has for literally decades been the workhorse of our
fleet of expendable boosters.  It has the capacity to lift nearly a tonne
to geosynchronous orbit.  The Japanese N-1 is a copy of Delta, with a new
LH2/LOX upper stage).

Kevin Kenny
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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