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Old January 24th 09, 02:22 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Rand Simberg[_1_]
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Default Manned COMSAT in GEO

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:12:35 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

It would have been a real bitch to get crew and supplies to this thing:
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/22/its-new-4/
Thank God for miniaturized electronics.
Notice anything missing?
The station has no obvious means of generating electrical power (I
assume the dishes are uplink-downlink communication arrays, not solar
collectors, although they do seem to be pointing toward the Sun).


You could do it with a nuke, but there's no obvious way of rejecting
the heat...