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From: pat@grebyn.com (Pat Bahn)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Hubble Space Telescope
Message-ID: <14089@grebyn.com>
Date: 11 Dec 89 00:10:58 GMT
Reply-To: pat@grebyn.UUCP (Pat Bahn)
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	Hi, I hate to ask a stupid question, but I was flipping through
the channels and saw some partial report on the 11 year solar flare
cycle.  It said that if predictions on flares are off 20%, it could cut
5 years off the orbital life of HST.  Now are there any plans or
capabilities to reboost HST?  She does not have thrusters to nudge her
about as far as I know.  There was some talk at one time of reboosting
solar max and skylab but we all knew what happened.  I'd hate to see a
project that has been going since 1975, go down due to a sunspot.

	WOuld it be better to delay (I can hear the screams from
baltimore)  HST one year till after the peak?  Of course we may lose
atlantis by then and boy would they be screwed.


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