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From: yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space telescope - why only 1200 hours?
Message-ID: <1989Jul24.213346.24486@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 89 21:33:46 GMT
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In article <26623@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> richmond@astroplasma.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Michael Richmond) writes:
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>I realize that you lose a lot
>of observing time being in LEO, and that it really needs to be 
>there, but ...

Why does it really need to be LEO?  Why not put it in a higher orbit?

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Brian Yamauchi				University of Rochester
yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu		Computer Science Department
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