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BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: Well, 105 degrees west. Well, Bill asks a question, and Bill's from Sacramento, and he says,

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"Where will GOES be parked? Will it be in position over the Atlantic or the Pacific?"

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ANDRE' DRESS: Well, let's see here, for storage, Bill, we're talking about putting it at 105 degrees west.

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Okay, so that's halfway between the 75 degrees west and the 135 degrees west that we talked about earlier.

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105 degrees west is a specific location because it's a stable point on the Earth, and we have to do less maneuvers

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to actually keep it in that location. So, after that, it depends on which satellite needs, which area needs it the best.

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Okay, so if the east spacecraft has run out of fuel or actually had a failure, then it would replace that spacecraft.

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If the west spacecraft at 135 had a failure, ran out of fuel, then it would replace that one. So it's really

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based on the needs at the time.

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BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: So you've got a lot of flexibility, we can put it wherever we need it at the time.

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ANDRE' DRESS: That's correct. BUCKINGHAM: Alright, thank you.

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