Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle-ground communication and payloadprices
Message-ID: <1989Mar28.234309.2079@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2099@botter.cs.vu.nl> <1989Mar20.191412.23335@utzoo.uucp> <1194@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> <1989Mar22.175026.1247@utzoo.uucp> <2102@botter.cs.vu.nl> <2516@phred.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 23:43:09 GMT

In article <2516@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
>... Last, but not least, the TDRS will provide an important
>link to the Hubble Space Telescope allowing image data to be transmited
>to its ground station (Reston, Virginia) on a continous basis.

This is literally correct but gives the wrong impression.  The HST is
not the only satellite using TDRS relaying; things like the most recent
Landsats are set up for it as well.  It's intended to be a general relay
system for major low-orbit satellites.  The HST is merely its most
visible near-future customer.
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