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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: ELV launched boosters for shuttle payloads
Message-ID: <2109@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Feb 90 17:20:05 GMT
References: <1990Jan28.012650.19697@utzoo.uucp> <1990Jan29.233938.8795@tvcent.uucp> <1990Jan30.191717.9035@utzoo.uucp> <15140@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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In article <15140@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>In article <1990Jan30.191717.9035@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Of course it would be nice to station an observatory directly above one
>ground facility wouldn't it.
Or even in  the kind of orbit that the (1978) International Ultraviolet
Explorer uses, which allows coverage from GSFC and Villafranca ... :-)

>Let's hope that when a successor IS designed, we'll have the luxury of

Lets hope someone capitalises on IUE and IRAS soon as well (yes I know
there are successor missions).,

Nick


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