Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle-ground communication
Message-ID: <1989Mar22.175026.1247@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2099@botter.cs.vu.nl> <1989Mar20.191412.23335@utzoo.uucp> <1194@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 17:50:26 GMT

In article <1194@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> johnson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson) writes:
>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?

I think you're confusing TDRS with something else.  The US has never given
any of them away, and the Europeans have no booster that could launch one.
The only TDRS on the ocean floor is the one that was aboard Challenger.
The other three that have been built are all in orbit (although the first,
launched by an early shuttle flight, is not in good shape), and at least
one more is planned.
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