Subject: RE: uars

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 11:06:13 EDT

Ben, we are all on the top of the world.  The launch was grand and went
off without a hitch, only 10 min. late.  This is only the second time in
history that the shuttle has gone off without a major delay.  After reaching
orbit we turned on the spacecraft and all was well.  On sunday night at
about 6:00pm the UARS spacecraft was lifted out of the bay and everything
seemed to be ok.  Later on we found that the "A" receiver could not see
the TDRSS communications spacecraft.  The  "B" receiver worked well and we
were deployed into orbit.  At that time the only problem was the receiver.
Since then, the receiver has "gotten well" and we are at a loss to explain
what went wrong.  My guess now is that there was an error in the commanding
procedure, but we are still trying to find out what went wrong on sunday.
HRDI is well as far as we can tell,  the only information is from the
temperature sensors, but they are all "nominal".  We will turn on the
power to HRDI on Sept. 29 at 7:00pm.  That is the critical time for us
and we need to have everyone keep their fingers crossed.  This is a very
important time for us all.  
     Let all of my friends at HAO know that we miss them, but are having 
a grand time with this new adventure.  See you later - Paul