Syncom 3: dropping the first shoe. (repair of artificial satellite by space shuttle crew)

From: Science News | Date: September 7, 1985| Author: Eberhart, Jonathan | Copyright information

Demonstration of the space shuttle's capability as a satellite service truck has been a gradual affair, even if the reason has been in part that many satellites are out of reach of the shuttle's love-altitude orbits. Yet the work carried out on the Syncom 3 communications satellite during the just-completed mission of the shuttlecraft Discovery (though the payoff will not be known until late next month) is a major step in that direction.

Even back when the shuttle was j...

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