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From: wolit@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Launching TDRSS with Ariane
Message-ID: <1723@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 16:21:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 16:21:46 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:27:53 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Alexander Wolf suggested that "we hire Ariane to throw the damn 
TDRS's up there."  Sorry, Alex, but the problem with TDRSS isn't in
the STS (Shuttle) system, but in the Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)
that's used to boost the satellite into geosynchronous orbit.  It
doesn't matter how you get into low earth orbit if you can't depend on
the IUS to get you higher.

	Jan Wolitzky, BTL Murray Hill