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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 09:46:46 PDT From: mauche@imager4.llnl.gov (Christopher Mauche) Subject: ORFEUS: message from the troops at KSFC ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From markh@ssl.Berkeley.Edu Mon Jul 26 09:42:07 1993 To: aavso@cfa0.harvard.edu, mauche@imager Subject: ORFEUS Content-Length: 895 X-Lines: 20 Hello Chris, Janet, ORFEUS launch was scrubbed again on Saturday 7/24. No new launch date scheduled; August 2 or 3 is probably the earliest possible. Sorry I haven't been keeping you better informed on detailed launch proceedings and potential observing times. One problem is that the launch itself keeps wriggling away. A second is that the deployment of ORFEUS depends on when within the launch window the orbiter actually leaves the ground. If we launch early in the window, then ORFEUS is deployed around 24 hours after launch. If we launch late, then deployment is around 48 hours after launch. Detailed planning (synchronization with IUE, etc.) is difficult I know - it's also difficult to plan the ORFEUS observing time line under these circumstances. Thanks to both of you and the amateurs for your ongoing support. We'll get it up there one of these days. -Mark Hurwitz ----- End Included Message -----
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