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From: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle-launched satellite passes early tests with flying colors (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <893@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 88 14:45:02 GMT
References: <18257@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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In article <18257@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>     TDRS-3 is the third to be launched.  The first has been in 
>operation since 1983 and is located at 41 degrees west 
>longitude.  The second was lost with the Challenger.  The fourth, 
>to complete NASA's constellation of three on-orbit satellites, is 
>scheduled for launch on the Discovery in February 1989.
>
I think I remember that the French were to launch one of the TDRS series and
ended up by orbiting it and several spares on the bottom of the Atlantic.

Could I be mistaking this with another communication satalite?

Even though there are lots who might think otherwise, GOOD JOB NASA and
to all those employees and contractors who made it happen!

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Wayne Johnson                 (Voice) 612-638-7665
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