Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site t4test.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!t4test!murray From: murray@t4test.UUCP (Murray Lane) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Westar VI Possibly Found -- Palapa B to be Launched Message-ID: <259@t4test.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 00:31:22 EST Article-I.D.: t4test.259 Posted: Thu Feb 16 00:31:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 06:00:56 EST References: <2576@alice.UUCP> Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 11 Regarding not being able to pick up Westar because it has no RMS handle. One of the plans that was discussed a year or two ago (and I thought approved) was to send out an astronaut in a jet backpack, have him grab the handle-less satelite and 'glue' a handle on it. If this is true (I think it is) then the only reason not to pickup errant satelites is because they are in the wrong orbit (too high or too North-South). From what the news reports have said, both of the lost satelites are low enough, does anybody know about their inclination? Murray at Intel-t4test