nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) (10/26/89)
If I read a recent Aviation week correctly, one of the commands during the Galileo launch was sent from the Air Force Satellite control facility at Sunnyvale. I assume this survived the earthquake but what would happen if it hadn't? Is the IUS control backed up in Colorado (CSOC?) or elsewhere? By the way, is this Sunnyvale facility the large blue windowless one near Moffett Field naval air station? I passed this on a Greyhound from SFO to Monterey and thought that it looked similar to the picture in Karas' "The New High Ground". It had several large satellite dishes nearby. On a bus it is hard to tell Palo Alto from Mountain View from Sunnyvale etc; or at least it is to a foreigner. Nick -- -- Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac