Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: "Status of the repaired satellite? - (nf)" Message-ID: <1116@hao.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 12:06:04 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1116 Posted: Tue Aug 21 12:06:04 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 06:01:34 EDT References: <333@daemon.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 25 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 -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "... the heat come 'round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day..."