[net.columbia] Syncom 4 Deployed

alb@alice.UucP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (08/30/85)

The Discovery crew today successfully deployed Syncom 4, which
later started on its journey to geosynchronous orbit.  Afterwards,
Commander Joe Engle began the sequence of 12 rocket firings that
will bring Discovery within 35 feet of Syncom 3, stranded last
April.  In two spacewalks this weekend, astronauts will try to fix
the ailing satellite.