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Page 8/The Battalion/Wednesday, May 25, 1983 Horse course starts Thursday The Department of Animal Science, which will begin its annual horse short course Thursday, will hold a sale of more than 50 young regis tered Quarter Horses at noon Friday. Both events will be held at Texas A&M’s new Livestock Pavilion on Jersey Street. Re gistration for the sale, which is open to the public at no cost, begins at 7:30 a.m. A preview of the sale horses will be held at 8 a.m. The horse short course in cludes a Brazos County horse farm tour, a visit to a ranch which breeds Quarter Horses for racing and a cutting horse training clinic conducted by Buster Welch, a professional horse trainer. A cutting horse contest, sponsored by the National Cutting Horse Association, will end the two-day’s activi ties on Friday at 6 p.m. Preregistration for the course costs $25, registration costs $30. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morn ing. Dr. Gary Smith, acting head of the Department of Animal Science, will present opening remarks at 8:20. Proceeds from the horse sale will be used for a new in door horse arena being built at FM 2818 and Turkey Creek Road in College Station. Shuttle gets economical satellite United Press International SPACE CENTER, HOUS TON — The space shuttle Chal lenger will carry an experimen tal satellite next month made by a West German company from parts including scuba diving tanks, helicopter lights and structural tubes developed as masts for sailing surfboards. The 3,300-pound satellite was built by Messerschmitt- BolkowBlohm to demonstrate how an orbiting platform can be used for commercial purposes such as materials processing and surveying the Earth for mineral deposits. Since the satellite is designed to utilize space for commercial purposes at low cost, program manager Konrad Moritz said the company had to avoid the high prices usually associated with space hardware. “We had to find ways where we could save money,” he said Monday at a briefing at the Johnson Space Center. “The overall goal of the program was, if it’s not cheap, if we don’t find ways, we don’t make it.” The satellite, for example, uses four scuba diving tanks to hold the nitrogen gas used for stabilization jets. Moritz said the tanks are five times as heavy as those built for space use, but “we saved probably some $ 100,000.” Instead of buying special Drug theft report puts owner in jail lights made for spacecraft, MBB used $10 lights made for heli copters. Mortiz said they passed all tests and probably saved the company tens of thousands of dollars. He said the main structure of the satellite is made from carbon fiber reinforced tubes de veloped by a Swiss company for masts on sailing surfboards. “We just took the production line of them and made a space product out of it,” he said. “It turned out we had almost zero development costs in this item.” The satellite, called SPAS-01, is worth $23 million. MBB’s in vestment is only $3.5 million, and MBB marketing manager Dieter Davidts said the company expects to recoup the invest ment by flying the satellite at least four more times. The Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration charges $3 mil lion for each flight. The satellite is a secondary payload on this mission. The primary job of the flight, set to start with launch June 18 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., is to launch two communications satellites — one for Telesat Canada and one for Indonesia. The satellite built by MBB will be launched and later retrieved for the first time by a 50-foot mechanical arm installed on the Challenger. Besides serving as a test sateli- ite for NASA, the satellite car ries six scientific experiments for which the German! Ministry of Researcht MBB $7 million. The company hopes I out space on this sateil more advanced platforml future for a variety ofpi4 — primarily remote j/0' space telescopes andi processing operationstf alize on the weightless space to make specialn Moriz said under t pany’s ageement with!) the satellite could even! for military reconisj cameras and other for non-aggressive m poses. He said, however,thjJ company’s potential i are civilian in nature. net Relax, Have Fun, Enjoy o Enter a new wonderful world of excitement. The atmosphere is different — the perfect setting for your favorite cocktails! And what food! The menu offers a variety that all the family will enjoy. Popular prices, too. 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