Re: [amsat-bb] Rocket Ride

["Laura Jolley" <jolleybuckaroo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Jim Walls <k6ccc@earthlink.net>
>>
>Gary's original question was if there had been any satellites launched from 
>the
>shuttle.  I'm not sure if was limiting the question to amateur or all
>satellites, but most (if not all) of the TDRS satellites were launched from
>shuttles.
>Yes, it will be nice to have PanSat available for the amateur community.
>
>73
>-----------------------
>Jim Walls - K6CCC
>k6ccc@amsat.org


If thats the issue then there have been A LOT of satellites launched from 
the shuttle.  Many are in interplanetary space....Galileo and Ulysses for 
instance.  Magellen went to Venus...

Robert Oler WB5MZO
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