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From: tif@cpe.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Atlantis orbit
Message-ID: <6400020@cpe>
Date: 22 Nov 88 17:05:00 GMT
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Written  1:27 pm  Nov 21, 1988 by tekecs.UUCP!nobody in cpe:sci.space.shuttle
>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...

There has been discussion of this satellite's maneuvering to a lower
orbit to take a picture than moving back up.  Perhaps the satellite
could normally be inaccessible, yet come down for a rendezvous at
a lower orbit.  (The idea being it wouldn't come down for just anybody.)

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
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