On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:35:16 -0700 (MST), you (Richard Clark <rclark@lpl.arizona.edu>) wrote: >On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Markus Mehring wrote: >> Third, there is not really a point in taking such images, which would also >> be why the idea reportedly was disregarded. You gain nothing in knowing >> what kind of damage you have to the heat-shield, because there is >> absolutely nothing you could do about it. You can't repair it on orbit, >> that's simply not possible. >Well, it could shorten the incident investigation after the mission. >It'd have to be used discretely of course. That would have required them to having come to the conclusion that the ET debris has caused substantial damage, thus requiring imaging of the Shuttle in (on?) orbit so as to ease the investigation of an expected fatal re-entry. Frankly, I don't subscribe to such a scenario. CU! Markus ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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