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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods)
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Subject: Re: "Status of the repaired satellite? - (nf)"
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 12:06:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 12:06:04 1984
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   If you are referring to the Solar Maximum Mission satellite, then I can
tell you exactly, since we analyze practically all the data from that 
satellite here at HAO. For some of us, that repair literally saved our jobs.
   The major repair to the satellite involved fixing the damaged attitude 
control system of the satellite itself (as opposed to the instruments on
board the satellite). This repair can only be described as a complete success.
Of the 7 scientific data-gathering devices on board, 5 of them are functioning
perfectly, a sixth (UVSP) is functioning in a degraded mode due to a 
microprocessor problem which has nothing to do with what was repaired on the 
shuttle, and the last is not working in spite of the fact that the main power 
supply was replaced during the shuttle mission. It was hoped that this would 
fix a problem that they had been having with it, but it did not.
  Overall the repair mission was successful. The scientists here seem very
happy with the data now being received (we don't receive it here, they get
it at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD., and ship it here on
mag tapes for analysis and display). If you want more information, feel
free to write to me or Andy Stanger (hao!stanger).

--Greg
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