Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space tugs and OMVs
Message-ID: <1989May8.035221.19799@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2871@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1989May4.155418.21073@utzoo.uucp> <2054@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <1989May5.175127.21275@utzoo.uucp> <2076@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8 May 89 03:52:21 GMT

In article <2076@Portia.Stanford.EDU> paulf@Jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty) writes:
>>[HST launch]
>>There was talk of using the OMV for that, but I think they've decided
>>that they can coax the shuttle up to a suitable altitude if they try hard.
>
>Curious.  How does one "coax the shuttle up to a suitable altitude?"

I'm not up on the details myself, but some of it is obvious: minimize
secondary payloads, minimize consumables, pick the most efficient trajectory
possible, pick a favorable phase of the Moon... :-)
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