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To: AppyPappy
No, the official excuse is now space debris.

They really better not try that one after all we've learned.

15 posted on 02/05/2003 1:33:31 PM PST by ez ("If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning." - GWB)
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To: ez
No, the official excuse is now space debris. They really better not try that one after all we've learned.

Spacecom's #1 job during a shuttle mission is to track every freaking thing that will intersect their orbit. Several missions have events of taking radical thrusting maneuvers to avoid orbital debris.

Spacecom tools up for a shuttle mission at weeks in advance of each shuttle lauch with high-powered radar and telescopes to update their databases of the orbital junkyard.

40 posted on 02/05/2003 1:42:15 PM PST by jriemer
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