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" tnetcenter@gmail.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Re-purposing ATVs To: amsat-bb@amsat.org 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

----- Original Message ----- From: wa6ilt@verizon.net

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 wa6ilt@amsat.org