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Savage
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
December 20, 1993
(Phone: 202/358-1547)
Michael Finneran
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-5565)
RELEASE: 93-224
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The priming worked well, but the reboost was terminated when
the B2 attitude control thruster performed significantly below
the other thrusters and caused the observatory to go unstable and
tumble. Quick action by ground controllers terminated the
thruster firings and, using a contingency procedure, brought the
observatory back into a stable mode.
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