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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: "What's New" July-24-1992
- Message-ID: <14220@ksr.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:18:26 EDT
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- gt3716a@prism.gatech.EDU (Josh 'I'd MUCH rather be diving' Freeman) writes:
- >I would like Nasa to work with the Russian space agency and possibly merge
- >Mir (which means "peace" in Russian ) to freedom.
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- Considering the difference in orbit inclinations which are essentially mandated
- by the physics involved in two widely-separated (in latitude) launch locations,
- merging Mir with Freedom would result in a large number of extremely small
- fragments.......
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- This gets discussed over and over in sci.space. Cape Canaveral cannot put much
- mass into Mir's orbit, and the CIS launch site cannot put much mass into
- typical US orbits.
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- There is, however, a lot of work they have done that NASA could benefit from,
- and at current launch rates the CIS can put smaller payloads into the more
- equitorial orbits used by the US at a favorable price.
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