10 Feb
2004
10 Feb
'04
10:28 a.m.
I'm sure ISS and Hubble are in different orbital planes. It would take a lot of thrust to change from one to the next–probably too much. Jim ---- Jim Cobb james@cobb.name On Feb 10, 2004, at 9:35 AM, Richard Tenney wrote:
I suppose this is pretty naive of me as to how these things work, but couldn't NASA plan a service trip to ISS that would also include servicing Hubble while they are already in orbit, or are the distances between the two craft prohibitively far apart? Or is it more a matter of supply weights? (though I'm guessing a new Pentium-1 processor [has to be 5-year-old technology at least] and a few new gyros, a couple of propellant canisters and a new CCD chip wouldn't weigh THAT much, or...)?
-Rich