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In article <zgm2yh@rpi.edu> strider@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore) writes:
>In article <71783@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
>> has the RMS. No RMS scheduled? Add it to a mission and then add SVS.
>	This would work except for one major requirement of the SVS, a
>clear payload so that visibility and movement wasn't hindered.


Here seems a stupid one?

SVS needed a clear payload bay in order to test full arm extension.???

Now when a satellitte is carried up, it is inside some shrouds and often
a turntable spinner.  Also bigger payloads are on racks.

Why not towards the last day of flight,  EVA two astronauts and jettision
the miscellaneous hardware.?  sure it's sapce junk,  but they could
wrap it all together on some cables and deploy a large mylar drdrogue
shield so it's radar visible and has high atmospheric drag.  it should come
down in a few years, if the drag is sufficient.

any guesses?