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In article <1992Dec27.163935.20473@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:

>I wasn't aware that DC was planned to have a GEO capability, or a large
>enough cargo bay to retrieve a major comsat.

Why do you always limit your thinking so Gary? First of all, the DC-Y
payload bay is almost the same size as Atlas. A production DC would have
a payload bay of whatever size the market needs. Second of all, you aren't
thinking of how lower costs will affect operations. Maybe a modified
DC-1 is used as an OTV to get payloads where they are returned to LEO for
repair (and not brought back to Earth). Maybe you use lower costs to fly
redundant satellites, each less relaible. When one breaks, it uses a
high efficiency electric engine to come back to LEO where it is repaired,
refueled, and returned. Maybe we abandon comsats in GEO and place them in
LEO. I can think of lots of alternatives.

   Allen

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