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#60
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:03
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#61
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:06
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#62
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:11
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#63
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:23
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November 9, 1984 - Let's launch a satelliteGood morning, Dave.
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#64
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:27
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#65
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:30
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#66
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:35
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#67
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:38
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#68
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:47
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#69
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 22:51
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#70
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:04
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Tim Furniss "Space Shuttle Log" (1986), p.64: Deciding to take advantage of the subsidised prices being offered to shuttle customers until 1988, Telesat of Canada flew Anik D-2 even though it was not yet needed. It was ejected from the orbiter cargo bay on a command from Joe Allen and placed into storage orbit by a 87 sec firing of its PAM-D stage.
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#71
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:12
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Anik left Discovery's cargo bay at 3:04 pm CST, one hour and six minutes later the tracking station at Tangue, Brazil, confirmed that the PAM-D motor had fired correctly and Anik was on its designated geostationary transfer orbit.
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#72
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:18
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#73
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:20
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#74
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:25
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#75
by
Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:35
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November 10, 1984 - And the second satellite is on its wayNovember 10, 1984 (my 17th birthday
), was another launch day - not only aboard Discovery, but also at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Aboard Ariane V11 Arianespace - main competitor of NASA in the satellite business - sent Spacenet 2 and MARECS 2 on their way into geostationary orbit.
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#76
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Ares67
on 07 Jan, 2012 23:54
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The crew of Space Shuttle Discovery awoke to the sounds of the Marine Corps Hymn. Although there was no Marine aboard, it was a Navy-only crew this time - except for the two civilians PhD Joe Allen and MD Anna Fisher. So Captain, USN, Rick Hauck, Commander, USN, Dave Walker, and Commander, USN, Dale Gardner commemorated the 209th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps in a short TV message sent back to Mission Control that morning.
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#77
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Ares67
on 08 Jan, 2012 00:03
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#78
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Ares67
on 08 Jan, 2012 00:07
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#79
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Ares67
on 08 Jan, 2012 00:18
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Syncom IV-1/Leasat 1 had been taken from the payload manifest of Discovery's first flight, due to faulty electronics in its UHF-antenna. Now it was ready. Like its predecessor, Syncom IV-2/Leasat 2 during STS 41-D, it left Discovery's payload bay "frisbee style" at 6:56 am CST on that morning.
