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From: g-hollin@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Jeff Hollingsworth)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis orbit
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Date: 22 Nov 88 16:17:09 GMT
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In article <10655@tekecs.TEK.COM> kendalla@pooter.UUCP (Kendall Auel) writes:
>In article <381@elan.UUCP> jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) writes:
>>I also thought that one of the major advantages of the KH-12 over it's
>>predecessors is that it is designed to be refueled in orbit by the
>>shuttle so that fuel shouldn't be as much of a problem.
>
>It seems to me that if the U.S. shuttle can refuel the spysat,
>then the Soviet shuttle could retrieve it.  I don't suppose the
>Pentagon would look too favorably on that, though...
>

I assume they would only bring the spysay down to shuttle level orbit when
it needed fuel.  After all, it takes two to tango, and I think the spysat's 
owners would do there best to keep it out of the Soviet shuttle's path.

On a slighlty different note, does anybody remember the rummors (about 6 months
to a year ago) that the KH-12 project had been killed?



Jeff Hollingsworth
hollings@rocky.CS.WISC.EDU