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...civil aviation, the deal's supporters reply that Tokyo already has entered the field with willing help from U.S. aerospace firms. Japan is developing an advanced jet engine with U.S., British, Italian and West German companies and is building a rocket that may launch a two-ton satellite into orbit...
...flight's highlight was the deployment of the $100 million Tracking and Data-Relay Satellite, which completes an orbiting communications network that will let the space agency reduce its reliance on an expensive series of ground stations. Much more was riding on Discovery, though, than a single satellite. Without a successful launch, NASA could not hope to stick to its ambitious schedule of seven shuttle flights this year. And those flights are vital to a whole series of important scientific missions, including sending a probe to Jupiter and placing a powerful telescope in orbit. Those launches, plus several other missions...
...five crew members monitored scientific experiments and photographed environmental damage on the Earth on the day after they roared into orbit and launched a key NASA communications satellite...
...hours after liftoff, Springer and Bagian were to deploy the 24-ton Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. It will then be carried by its own rocket to a 22,300-mile-high orbit to join two older satellites and complete an orbiting network essential for communicating with future space shuttles and with science and military satellites...
Discovery is to remain in orbit for five days, one hour, seven minutes, landing Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California...