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You know.. if they'd make it just a little bigger, and added some booster rockets, maybe an extra fuel tank, it might even carry astronauts and payloads to orbit! I wonder if anyone ever thought of such a craft... Off to the patent office!Originally Posted by Nicolas
A reusable satellite. Nice.
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If you mean fully reusable, low-cost, quick turn around...then I have to disappoint you: there's already a patent for that. Wink wink, nudge nudge, sarcastic grin.
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Relevant Ludwig von Drake cartoon. (An animated video, that is, not a drawing.)
Last edited by KaiYeves; 2012-Jun-21 at 03:34 PM.
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Please give a gentle "warning: video link" with these kind of hyperlinks.
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I'm sorry, I thought "cartoon" covered it, but you're right that "cartoon" can refer to both an animated film and a drawing, I should have specified that it was an animation.
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Link to Article at Spaceflight NowUnited Launch Alliance's Atlas-Centaur rocket has been put together for deploying the Air Force's third Orbital Test Vehicle flight, a mission that will demonstrate the reusability of the X-37B spaceplane when it blasts off Oct. 25 [2012].
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OTV-3. Orbital Test Vehicle-3.
From Wiki:
A unmanned reusable satellite/spacecraft. Awsome!The third OTV mission will be the second mission for the first X-37B vehicle, which stayed in orbit for 224 days in 2010 on the first mission. It is scheduled to launch on 25 October 2012
Now, just built a couple of thousands of them, and use them to clean up LEO.
-- Dennis
Wiki Article: X37-B.
Wiki Article: OTV-3
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