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- From: strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
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- Organization: The Voice of Fate
- References: <1992Dec15.134936.15434@iti.org> <84k24ya@rpi.edu> <71783@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:30:26 GMT
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- In article <71783@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
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- > Nope. Just about everything on that mission could have been divied up
- > and flown on other Shuttles. The Space Vision System on any flight which
- > has the RMS. No RMS scheduled? Add it to a mission and then add SVS.
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- This would work except for one major requirement of the SVS, a
- clear payload so that visibility and movement wasn't hindered.
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- > USMP? That's one pallet. LAGEOS was another. What was Columbia carrying
- > in the rest of the payload bay? Room for two more pallets, at least.
- > Put differently, LAGEOS and USMP-1 could have been flown on any mission
- > with space for one pallet in the payload bay. That's most missions.
- > Even the TDRS/IUS flights have room for one more pallet or good-sized
- > payload. 51L had TDRS/IUS and the Spartan satellite in the payload bay,
- > so the capabilty is there. The LBNP? That's a middeck experiment, suitable
- > for just about any Shuttle mission. The crew was too busy? Okay, then
- > fly the EDO pallet for the mission and spread the work out over four or
- > five more days. This was Columbia, afterall.
- >
- I agree with flying the EDO. It's there, and the incremental cost
- of extending a flight by 5 days has to be a heck of a lot less than
- flying an entirely new mission.
-
- > By the way, now NASA is planning to fly STS-62 carrying ONLY the USMP.
- > At least, that's all that appears on the manifest for the mission posted
- > here a couple of weeks ago. How on Earth is NASA going to justify THAT?
- >
- > -Brian
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