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Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Re: Saving the Shuttle External Tank - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1691
Posted: Tue Mar 15 23:07:15 1983
Received: Sat Mar 26 12:43:28 1983

#R:rabbit:-118500:uicsl:11100007:000:437
uicsl!preece    Mar 15 09:15:00 1983

Sounds like a good job for a solar electric propulsion system -
get the tank into a minimal orbit and let a little electric drive push
it higher. It wouldn't matter that it took a long time, the
drive would need to only produce slightly more thrust than
the atmospheric drag and eventually the tank would get out to where
it would be useful. Now all you need to do is build the propulsion
system (whatever happened to SEPS, anyway...).