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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle-ground communication
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Date: 30 Mar 89 02:25:04 GMT
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In article <354@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink) writes:
>In theory, the 3rd TDRS could communicate with White Sands via one of the
>other two TDRSs. In practice, as Tobin said, 85% coverage is good enough,

Besides....with 100% coverage, the flight controllers would *never*
be able to take a bathroom break  :-)

(They normally take their breaks during Loss Of Signal times).

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>