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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Westar VI Possibly Found -- Palapa B to be Launched
Message-ID: <2574@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 12:13:49 EST
Article-I.D.: alice.2574
Posted: Sun Feb  5 12:13:49 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:18:07 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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NORAD radar said yesterday that two of the seventeen chunks of
debris orbiting above and behind the Challenger were big enough
to be the remains of Westar VI and its rocket.  Yesterday, ground
stations received faint signals on the Westar frequency, too faint
to lock on to.  Western Union has said that if it is indeed the
satellite, which it looks like it is, it is useless anyway, since
there is now way to move it to geosynchronous orbit.  There are
speculations that the PAM malfunction, sending the satellite
pinwheeling instead of soraing up.

Meanwhile, Indonesia gave NASA permission to deploy its satellite
Monday morning at around 1100 EST.