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From: mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle-launched satellite passes early tests with flying colors (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1165@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 88 13:51:02 GMT
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Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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From article <893@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, by johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson):
> 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?

Yes, you are mistaken; the TDRS series are designed for Shuttle launch only,
although Titan 3 may be used as a backup in a few years. Perhaps you are
thinking of GTE's Spacenet 3, which did do some underwater exploration on an
Ariane. Arianespace has not launched any comsats nearly as big as TDRS.

Jonathan McDowell