Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!eagle!alice!rabbit!wolit 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 Article-I.D.: rabbit.1723 Posted: Mon Jul 25 16:21:46 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:27:53 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 8 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