tlijy@cc.curtin.edu.au (01/31/91)
Space shuttle can only fly upto 500-800 km high. It is not possible for it to recover or to repair any geostationary satellites. Is it because shuttle does not have enough fuel or is it because of some other technical problems for stationing space shuttle in such high altitude? It is more useful for space shuttle to fly higher rather than worrying about whether it can take off horizontally! _Jason Y. Li =============================================================================== Dept. of Applied Physics |1) PSImail: psi%050529452300070::TLIJY Curtin Univ. of Techn. |2) Internet: TLIJY@cc.curtin.edu.au Perth, West. Australia |3) Bitnet: TLIJY%cc.curtin.edu.au@cunyvm.bitnet [Remote Sensing Res. Group]|4) UUCP : uunet!munnari.oz!cc.curtin.edu.au!TLIJY <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [Genesis 1:1] It is much more easier to be critical than correct. [Disraeli]
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (02/01/91)
In article <6931.27a81aec@cc.curtin.edu.au> tlijy@cc.curtin.edu.au writes: >Space shuttle can only fly upto 500-800 km high. It is not possible for it >to recover or to repair any geostationary satellites. Is it because shuttle >does not have enough fuel or is it because of some other technical >problems for stationing space shuttle in such high altitude? There are various minor problems, but the big one is simply lack of fuel. The original plan was that the Space Tug was going to deal with this problem, so it was not necessary to design the shuttle orbiter with a high-orbit capability. (This was the right solution in any case, because it is silly and pointless to lug wings, tiles, large nonrestartable engines, and all the other heavy paraphernalia of Earth-to-orbit flight into a higher orbit.) Of course, then the Space Tug got cancelled... -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry