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From: mike@thumperbellcore.com (Michael Caplinger)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Throttling the Challenger
Message-ID: <861@thumperbellcore.com>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 19:09:20 EST
Article-I.D.: thumperb.861
Posted: Mon Oct 26 19:09:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 06:36:11 EST
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Reply-To: mike@thumper.UUCP (Michael Caplinger)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
Lines: 9
Keywords: SSME, Galileo, Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
Summary: 109% to launch Galileo, HST

I remember vividly from my Caltech days two specific missions that *had* to
use 109% thrust because of their mass -- Galileo and the Hubble Space
Telescope.  The former may have gotten lighter, but the HST is just
as heavy as it ever was.

It scared me even in 1981, and it scares me even more now.

	Mike Caplinger
	mike@bellcore.com