Re: Recovering Iridiums?

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I hears that the Japanese are looking into this anyway. So while NASA may
now do it--someone will.  Maybe the Japanese are the reason that the Russian
President just gave Mir the go to continue.  Perhaps the Japanese and
Russians see the gold out there are going cannibalize it.   Just the solar
panels and jets could be very valuable to Mir. With a much  larger solar
array  and extra batteries the Mir
-----Original Message-----
From: Tristan Cools <tcools@nic.INbe.net>
To: Seesat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com <Seesat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com>
Date: Monday, May 24, 1999 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Recovering Iridiums?


>At 19:26 23-05-99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>Recently, I queried the Iridium website about repairing the tumblers with
>say an
>>STS like mission.  The response was that something like STS could not do
it
>>because the Irids were far too high to reach.  I suspect the real reason
to be
>>
>
>
>Iridium hight is not a big problem I think, but the inclination of 86.4
>degrees is.
>
>There is no way to launch a shuttle in that inclination unless they violate
>flight regulations to launch the shuttle above populated areas.
>
>The Shuttle launch pad at Vandenberg would have done the job but it has
>never been used and was mothballed.  Later this launch pad has been
>refurbished into the Athena launch pad.
>
>
>Greetings,
>Tristan Cools
>tcools@nic.INbe.net
>BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites
>
>Observing at:
>
>Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N
>Ryckevelde: 3.2867E/51.2054N
>Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N

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