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From: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle-ground communication
Message-ID: <1194@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 18:38:28 GMT
References: <2099@botter.cs.vu.nl> <1989Mar20.191412.23335@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
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In article <1989Mar20.191412.23335@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In the
>beginning, launching a complete set of relay satellites for itself was to
>be one of the shuttle's first jobs.  

If my memory is right, there were originally to be 3 TDRS in orbit.  Six were
build and 2 each (one was a spare) were given to the French and another country
(my memory fails me here) as well as 1 to be launched on the shuttle.  The 
French dropped their 2 plus one borrowed from the US on the ocean floor.  Or 
was this another satellite I'm thinking of?


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