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DATE: THURSDAY, August 19, 1993                   TAG: 9308190226
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-14   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

TECH GROUP AIDS DATA COLLECTION

The Satellite Communications Group at Virginia Tech has built and shipped seven advanced satellite terminals that will collect data from various space satellites to be launched on the July 1994 space-shuttle mission.

Warren Stutzman, head of the College of Engineering's satellite group, said the terminals were completed under budget and ahead of time.

The terminals, designed and built at Virginia Tech, are part of the NASA program of Advanced Communications Technology Satellites, managed by the Space Power Institute at Auburn University in Alabama.

Virginia Tech faculty members Tim Pratt and Charles Nunnally played key roles in developing the prototype terminal which has been dubbed "the switchboard in the sky for the most sophisticated communications satellite ever launched." 


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