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Non-Tech : Amati investors
AMTX 1.380+0.4%Dec 24 12:59 PM EST

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To: JW@KSC who wrote (11404)3/6/1997 3:20:00 PM
From: JW@KSC   of 31386
 
[ Blast-Off Update ]

Dateline~ KSC
03/06/97 14:47 hrs

Problems with the bird, continue. At one point our reporter saw a tow
truck backed up to Pad 39A with a set of Jumper Cables attached to the
Shuttle. He heard someone say "Try it now!"

Dateline ~ Cape Canaveral Air Station
03/06/97 15:00 hrs.

The AMTX PR Broadcasting Satellite in orbit has failed.

Emergency action was taken today at The Cape as an ATLAS rocket
with the latest ADSL Broadcast Satellite is poised for liftoff at
01:02:00 tomorrow morning Friday March 7th, and will be fully
operational at 09:00.

Sources at the Cape confirm that this is the fastest payload processing in the Cape's history. When it was discovered Monday that the ADSL PR broadcast
Satellite failed. Payload processing began immediately on the first available lift vehicle. Final processing began Monday after a Scrub call on the Atlas IIA/Tempo-2 DBS -- Monday night at 7p.m. 19:00 hrs..
Sources say the scrub was due to a Dead Battery.
The Energizer Bunny was spotted by Cape Security Forces.

The Payload is set, and the Atlas is ready for an early morning launch
which will light up the Space Coast sky at 01:02.

It is hoped that the Satellite will light up the day on the Nasdaq exchange on Friday.

Space Coast News a Product of the WILK Broadcasting Network

Heading out to The Cape to prepare for the Launch.
JW@KSC
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