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To: RMiethe who wrote (6056)5/6/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: Clarksterh  Read Replies (1) of 10852
 
RM - Apparently NASA can place this GEOsat in the Shuttle bay, and move it to where it should be-- if they decide to do it. Looks like NASA has done this for military satellites in the past, as I am told.

Just FYI, this is not possible. The space shuttle does not have the oomph to do much of anything other than sit in whatever orbit it initially flies to. However, there are some options, but they are pretty expensive:

1) Attach a booster to Orion and zap it up to a low inclination GTO. But first the satellite will use up a lot of its fuel bringing itself down to shuttle orbit, and then afterwards it will use up even more fuel circularizing when it gets into GTO.

2) Burn Orion dry in the process of bringing it down to shuttle orbit and then load it onto the shuttle and bring it back to earth. Refurbish it and try again.

Both of these options are very expensive since anything to do with NASA costs money. And they may not be technically feasible for a variety of reasons. Or NASA may no longer allow them. In any case I wouldn't count on much NASA help for Orion.

Clark

PS An out-of-this-world concept is that Hughes has, in the past, gotten a satellite up to GEO from GTO by flying to the moon. I don't have enough info to say whether that is feasible in this case, but ... .
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