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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (130119)	6/1/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Kenneth Aird	Respond to of 176387

We can always send the shuttle up to repair them :) Seriously, I suspect that satellites are one of the few places where people gave serious thought to the design life of software. Also the software is usually uploadable. Finally the number of satellites is relatively small compared to the millions of other embedded devices around. I doubt that modern phones draw much current on the ring, but the phone company could still be a huge user of power with all the switches they keep running. I know one office building I used to work in had a phone number you could dial to learn its current power use. It was typically about 7 megawatts, mostly due to desktop computers. There was also a significant percentage for air conditioning, even in the winter, to suck out all the heat produced by those computers. Ken