Brainstorm -- Uses for a small 'construction shack' in 28deg LEO

From: Jim Oberg (jameseoberg_at_houston.rr.com)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:13:58 GMT

Last week's discussion went off on its own directions but not the ones I had
hoped.

Suppose the 'safe haven' were built to handle post-Hubble human missions
from a Soyuz pad in Kourou.

What sort of commercial opportunities does this enable?

What sort of orbit-to-orbit space assembly tasks could such a 'construction
shack' enable?

What sort of features therefore should be included on any 'safe haven' built
mainly for Hubble
BUT with the more likely scenario that it would be exploited AFTER the
successful shuttle-based
Hubble repair, when it had become 'space surplus'?

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MSNBC - How a 'safe haven' could help save Hubble
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6671864/
Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET Dec. 7, 2004

An "out-of-the-box" plan to put a new space habitat in orbit could be a
leading contender for saving the Hubble Space
Telescope, private-sector analysts say in a proposal being prepared for
NASA. The habitat could be used as an emergency safe haven during the Hubble
servicing mission, and then could serve as a base for wider commercial and
exploratory space travel.

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