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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Launch Window question
Message-ID: <2234@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 88 03:05:11 GMT
References: <15019@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <15019@ames.arc.nasa.gov>, yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
> 
>      NASA today set a target launch date of Sept. 29 for STS-26, 
> the next Space Shuttle flight.  The opening of the launch window 
> is approximately 9:59 a.m. EDT.

If the purpose of the mission is to deploy a geosynchronous satellite,
why is there a launch window?  What difference does it make when one
launches into earth orbit?

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					-- Mark A.
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