DBraunstein.ES@Xerox.ARPA (04/02/84)
From: David.Smith@cmu-cs-ius.arpa ".......makes me skeptical about the claim that the space station would be useful as a base for satellite repair." If you read the late January edition of Aviation Week (or Leak), there is an article outlining the full NASA proposal for the space station or more accurately space operation centers. Included in the proposal is a funding request to develop a teleoperator to allow the remote retrieval of satellites in different orbits. Also you must remember that the present space station proposal is only a preliminary step, by the end of the next decade there will probably be one station at 57 degree inclinaton, and one in a polar orbit, thus allowing repair of a wider range of satellites, especially earth resources satellites.