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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: satellite costs etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.202714.20889@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Dec23.111923.22269@ke4zv.uucp> <BzqBvs.J8H@zoo.toro <1992Dec27.163935.20473@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:27:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.163935.20473@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >I wasn't aware that DC was planned to have a GEO capability, or a large
- >enough cargo bay to retrieve a major comsat.
-
- Why do you always limit your thinking so Gary? First of all, the DC-Y
- payload bay is almost the same size as Atlas. A production DC would have
- a payload bay of whatever size the market needs. Second of all, you aren't
- thinking of how lower costs will affect operations. Maybe a modified
- DC-1 is used as an OTV to get payloads where they are returned to LEO for
- repair (and not brought back to Earth). Maybe you use lower costs to fly
- redundant satellites, each less relaible. When one breaks, it uses a
- high efficiency electric engine to come back to LEO where it is repaired,
- refueled, and returned. Maybe we abandon comsats in GEO and place them in
- LEO. I can think of lots of alternatives.
-
- Allen
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