Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!allegra!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Westar VI Possibly Found -- Palapa B to be Launched Message-ID: <2576@alice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 06:20:23 EST Article-I.D.: alice.2576 Posted: Mon Feb 6 06:20:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 05:35:21 EST References: <929@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 8 Westar VI, being a geosynchronous satellite that was supposed to be in an orbit inaccessible to the shuttle, was not designed to be rescued in space. Satellites, such as solar max, which are to be picked up by the shuttle, have special hardware (such as things for the RMS to grasp) for that purpose. As for moving the shuttle to Westar VI this mission, NASA said that would take too much fuel.