Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!alb From: alb@brunix.UUCP (Adam Buchsbaum) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: More Launch Delays Message-ID: <12323@brunix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 19:23:59 EST Article-I.D.: brunix.12323 Posted: Thu Feb 28 19:23:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:42:36 EST Lines: 16 NASA today postponed the launch of the Challenger by three more days, until 7 March, if order to give technicians more time to troubleshoot one of the batteries on the TDRS satellite in the cargo bay. One of its twenty-four cells will not accept a charge. The battery is one of three that supplies power to the satellite when it is out of sunlight. The new delay has forced a postponement of the next launch of the Discovery, originally scheduled for 17 March. The new launch date for that mission is now 20 March, giving a mere 3-day launch window. The window is due to the orbit needed for the Discovery to rendezvous with a satellite that its crew is scheduled to retrieve. The next launch opportunity would come three weeks later.