🚀 go-pugleaf

In article M22079@mwvm.mitre.org, M22079@mwvm.mitre.org () writes:
>In article <n1201t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
>David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> 
>>
>>No matter which way you cut it, a TDRS is too heavy to be launched to Jupiter
>>orbit from the shuttle (remember it needs to carry fuel for Jupiter orbit
>>insertion, as well).
>>
>>One of the problems with the space activist commnity is that we tend to make
>>half-a**ed designs here on the net, instead of what we should be doing:
>>creating an environment where things simply don't go wrong in the first place.
>>That's what TQM is all about.
>>
>>--- Maximus 2.00
> 
>     I would like to see the math that shows that TDRS could not be sent to
>Jupiter, remember that a TDRS has relatively large fuel tanks, in addition to
>fuel in the IUS.
>     I believe the redesign of TDRS-F looked very complicated and was thought
>very risky.  I was not consulted and did not look into it.  The link budget
> would need to be quite a bit different than the situations for which TDRS
>was designed.
> 

as long as were at the exercise of retro-fitting a TDRS for GLL-Relay,
please post the TDRS specs for:
    wet mass:
    dry mass:
    power source:
    attitude control sensors:
    attitude controllers:
    thermal controllers:
    radiation hardness:
    antenna articulation capabilities:

thanx