Nice idea but one of the major uses of the ATV is to fill it up with literally tons of garbage before it is deorbited, I doubt NASA or ESA would be happy to happy to do away with that facility:)
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Graham G3VZV ----- Original Message ----- From: wa6ilt@verizon.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:50 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re-purposing ATVs
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?
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