In a message dated 7/12/99 1:30:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mhanning-lee@syagen.com writes: > I suspect people think it's not worth much. It's old, kind of like a > 1985 car or a 1985 PC. Depreciation in a harsh environment & technical > progress have lowered the value. It's in too low an orbit for a good > comms relay; there's only one of it so it's only above-horizon every 90 > minutes at best! Or you could just use it for RECON. But you would want results from what it costs to attach some sensors to Mir (make sure results=costs). Or even just boost it to a high orbit and deal with it in the future. Jonathan lwojack@aol.com