(ed kyle) wrote in message . com...
h (Rand Simberg) wrote in message ...
...is the title of this week's Fox News column, in which I discuss the
difference between the Russian and American space programs, and
propose moving ISS into a useful orbit.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102931,00.html

By my figuring, it would take 322 tonnes of storable
propellant (OMS-type, ISP=316 sec) to impose the
suggested 3,100 meter per second plane change on the
187 tonne ISS. It would take 14 EELV Heavy or 17 STS
launches just to haul up the propellant! A bit more
than $1 billion for that. Probably cheaper to put a
completely new space station into the 28 degree orbit.


Yes, or a dozen Shuttle-Cs...just another use for heavier lift.

--Chris Vancil