🚀 go-pugleaf

>>Doing that would cost more then they are worth. It would be cheaper to
>>build new ones and launch them commercially.
>>
>Can you show that was also true for SMM?  Part of the MMS on UARS is from SMM,
>having been brought back after a successfull mission, after earlier being
>repaired in orbit.  SMM isn't planning to reuse itself, and neither UARS nor
>GRO may be either, but there has already been cost savings on UARS due to the
>return of SMM.  Only the shuttle (product of politics more than NASA's
>technical or mangement expertise IMHO) could repair SMM, and only the shuttle
>could bring it back.
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>Bob Koehler

   Did I miss something here? SMM is the Solar Maximum Mission, correct?
   It was not returned to earth, only repaired in orbit. It burned up
   in 1990, I think.
   
   -Brian

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