[extropy-chat] Re: Soyuz Hubble Repair Mission--reply to a reply on another list

[Technotranscendence]

I cross-posted Mike Lorrey's reply to the "How to build a Space Habitat"
list and bestonnet_00 answered thusly.:)

More on that list can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/howtobuildaspacehabitat/

Dan

From: "bestonnet_00" no_reply at yahoogroups.com
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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: [How to build a Space Habitat] Re: Soyuz Hubble Repair
Mission--reply to a reply on another list

--- In howtobuildaspacehabitat at yahoogroups.com, "Technotranscendence"
<neptune at s...> didn't write but copied:
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> From: "Mike Lorrey" mlorrey at y...
> To: "ExI chat list" extropy-chat at l...
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Soyuz Hubble Repair Mission
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> My recommendation is instead is for the USAF to orbit the Orbital
> Transfer Vehicle they developed several years ago at Phillips Lab
> and never launched, hook that up to Hubble, and use it to move
> Hubble to the ISS for servicing. It could then be used to put Hubble
> into a much higher orbit as well and enable it to return to ISS in
> the future for servicing, refuelling, etc.

How much Delta v is it capable of?  It takes a lot to change the plane
of an orbit which is what would be required to bring the Hubble to ISS.