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

[Mike Lorrey]

The Phillips OTV's arcjet has enough power and fuel to be capable of
SEVERAL trips back and forth to and from geosynchronous orbit with
significant payloads.

--- Technotranscendence <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:

> 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
> To: howtobuildaspacehabitat at yahoogroups.com
> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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.
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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