Decomposing garbage could provide fuel for a thermoelectric generator as well as gas for station keeping jets.
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Message: 16 Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:23:16 -0700 From: "Jeff Moore" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Re-purposing ATVs To: [email protected] Message-ID: 00fb01c895b7$cdddd440$f6ab0048@TNTCENTER Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
They have to fill it with garbage first :-)
Jeff Moore -- KE7ACY
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I was reading about the Jules Verne docking at the ISS today and all of a sudden it occurred to me: instead of using the spacecraft fuel to de-orbit, what if it was placed in a higher orbit, and there was a ham package on board?
Dave Reinhart [email protected]