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From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Satellite Rescue in November
Message-ID: <2958@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 07:53:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 07:53:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 14:10:10 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Palapa B2 will be the object of the second shuttle satellite
rescue attempt during the November flight of the Discovery.
NASA announced yesterday that it had signed an agreement with
the two insurance companies which took over ownership of the
satellite upon paying $75 million to the Indonesian government
to return the satellite to Earth in November.  Astronaut Joseph
Allen will fly a MMU to the satellite, grapple it, and hold it
steady while the shuttle crew grabs it with the RMS.

NASA is still talking with the insurance companies that now own
Westar 6, the other ill-fated satellite of Challenger's mission
earlier this year, about possibly retrieving it.