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To: KobraKai

It’s not in orbit around the Earth.

It’s in orbit around the Sun and flying formation with the Earth at the Earth’s L2 point about 1 million miles away.

So it is not serviceable.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 11:24:33 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: The Free Engineer

Ah thank you.


27 posted on 06/09/2022 11:51:29 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: The Free Engineer
So it is not serviceable.

Well... Yes and no. It wouldn't be easy and it'd be hideously expensive... but it could be done.

44 posted on 06/09/2022 2:45:13 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: The Free Engineer
So it is not serviceable.

Why not?

If it made it to that location, what keeps something else from doing the same?

49 posted on 06/09/2022 5:42:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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