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!harpo!eagle!allegra!alice!alb 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 Lines: 12 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.