Apr 14 1983
From The Space Library
Efforts to push the $100-million TDRS communications satellite in-to its proper orbit were suspended when NASA engineers found that two of its maneuvering rockets were damaged and would not work. Firing the 16 small thrusters on the satellite was the obvious way to correct the orbit, but Ron Browning, TDRS project manager, said that engineers from NASA and TRW Inc., manufacturer of TDRS, would take four to six weeks to figure how to operate it with "less than a fully optimal control system." (W Post, Apr 14/83, A-3)
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