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To: Michael Allard who wrote (5045)	6/4/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: Rocket Scientist	Respond to of 29987

Well, I'm the bird in the hand type and wish we'd gone on Soyuz in May as planned. The scenario of "Deltas go to higher orbit so changing the May Soyuz into a July Delta actually saves time in the end" is the company's line, and in a perfect world might even be true. In fact, however, the second "July" launch has already moved to August, and we haven't gotten the June launch off yet. Besides, if all the birds had been ready to go, they could have launched on Soyuz in May AND had two Delta's in July. G* Mgmt seems to operate on a "just in time" basis when scheduling S/C deliveries, export licenses(!?!), launches, gateways and user terminals, whether from choice or necessity I don't know, but it's led to a lot of schedule erosion, and I expect we'll see more before we're done.

To: Michael Allard who wrote (5045)	6/4/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: David Wiggins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

First, there are NOT two July launches. There is the one that was scheduled all along. The extra launch is now Aug 16th. Second, I don't believe it takes 2 months to get the satellites into their proper orbit after launch. I understand your points, and your desire to see the bright side (BTW, my side is quite bright too), but I just don't go for the we'll launch later to be ready earlier argument. Besides, taking another Delta launch should not have had any impact on the the Soyuz launch. They could have done both, especially since they were already within the 30 day prep phase for the Soyuz launch when they cancelled it (read wasted effort) Regards, Dave