Re: Rescuing Damaged Shuttle During Hubble Mission

charliexmurphy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Not doable. The vehicle would be electrically dead and
uncontrollable. That is the reason for the destructive entry

Don't know what your definition of "electrically dead" is. But in my
mind, if there is an orbiter in that condition, they wouldn't even be
able to fire the de-orbit burn and the shuttle would be worse off than
skylab. It wouldn't be a "destructive entry", it would be a
"uncontrolled re-entry" probably a few years after the event until the
orbit decays sufficiently.

Consider that Hubble is high enough that it doesn't need frequent
reboosts from the shuttle. A shuttle in that orbit would take a very
long time to de-orbit by itself if it were electrically dead.

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