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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Palapa B Fate Unknown
Message-ID: <2577@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 15:39:06 EST
Article-I.D.: alice.2577
Posted: Mon Feb  6 15:39:06 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:04:35 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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The Challenger crew today dispatched Palapa-B from the shuttle
and this time kept the shuttle oriented so that they could see
the PAM fire.  The firing went well, but nearly three hours
later, Indonesia still had not received confirmation from the
satellite that it had achieved the proper orbit, a message that
usually comes 90 minutes after the firing.  Officials are
hoping that the satellite is just oriented wrong, but they
do not know.