Aalice.460 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!npois!alice!sjb Fri Mar 26 23:44:35 1982 Shuttle News Columbia's radio system continued to suffer today, worse than before. Three of the four downlink S-band transponders are out, and one of the four uplinks is out. The S-banders are used for telemetry and data communications, such as ground to shuttle computer communucations. As long as the uplinks are working, Columbia's computers can receive their orbit and descent information. NASA officials will meet tonight and throughout the weekend to discuss options, but they remained hopeful that they will see a full mission, possibly extended a couple days on account of a storm system over White Sands. If the landing on Monday -- scheduled for 1427 EST -- is made impossible because of windy conditions, the shuttle will have enough fuel and other consumable items to last it one or two more days in orbit. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.