Re: Subject: Another out of control comsat?

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In a message dated 3/12/99 , Philip Chien wrote:

>I'd appreciate it if somebody could take a look at GE-3 (24936   97 50A).
>It's located at 87 West.  I watched programming on it last night, but this
>morning there's nothing being broadcast on any channel

from an AP release that just arrived on AOL:

``We lost one of the gyros on the satellite, and it started rolling and
failed,'' said Fred Cain of GE Americom. ``We were able to re-acquire the
satellite and are bringing it back on.'' 

They are apparently still looking into the cause.

-Jim Cook
Germantown, MD
39.2N, 77.3W

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