lee%su-star@sri-unix.UUCP (10/29/84)
From: WOO IL LEE <lee@su-star> By the way, the followin thought just hit me! If this mission is succesful, this will be the FIRST TIME EVER that a spacecraft has bee returned to Earth to prepare it to fly ANOTHER mission. And these satelli- tes weren't even designed for orbital servicing (after all they were supposed to go to GEO, and it will be a few years before we service that one regularly). I think we are going to learn all kinds of interesting things when the Hughes engineers try to re- furbish them. For example, are they going to replace the hydrazine tanks or try to refill them? Will they find some new effects of the Earth environment on systems that have already been operating in space? Any thoughts? Emilio P. Calius Stanford Univ. ------