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From: sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Unauthorized use of SRB's
Summary: INTELSAT VI rescue? Unlikely.
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Date: 19 Mar 90 20:46:35 GMT
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>    INTELSAT VI after launching Hubble?
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>    Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu

Unlikely; not only would that require adding some kind of structural
support to hold the satellite down (Discovery is on the pad), but 
Discovery will use almost all of its maneuvering fuel* to get the HST 
up into its 610km high orbit. Chasing another satellite in a different 
orbit seems out of the question.

Then there are the problems associated with actually holding on to the
satellite ( no grappel fixtures) and the sheer size of the bird.

* See _Sky_&_Telescope_, April 1990 - an HST special issue.
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