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Old January 24th 09, 07:16 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Manned COMSAT in GEO

Pat Flannery wrote:

: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).
:

Given the date, I would assume they figured it would be powered by a
nuclear reactor.


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