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Article #8903Re: Recovery of Salyut 7
From: Bob Gray
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 14:16
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 14:16
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In article <2168@wyse.wyse.com> mikew@wyse.com (Mike Wexler) writes: >mission was? I can think of several possibilities: > 3. so they can analyze the effects of long term exposure to LEO. This seems like the best reason for bringing Salyut 7 down in one bit. Taking it apart in a laboratory back on Earth will provide the Soviets with a lot of very valuable information on how materials and machinery wear and deteriorate during long term exposure to conditions in orbit. Build for a short lifetime, analyse anything that goes wrong, re-design, re-build. That seems to be the usual Soviet space exploration technique. Contrast with the NASA method of a designing the space station to have a 30 year life expectancy, using new alloys and plastics, none of which have had any long term exposure to conditions in orbit. Bob.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Recovery of Salyut 7 Message-ID: <1665@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 31 Mar 89 14:16:20 GMT References: <2168@wyse.wyse.com> Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray) Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project Lines: 20