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re: bring it home
Delbert — (archived)

Actually they did retrieve and repair satellites a couple of times. here is a link to a story about one of them. I recall another one in which they had to send out 3 astronauts to capture the Intelsat 6 because the mechanism they had to capture it didn’t fit. Three astronauts performed an EVA and grabbed it by there hands. It was the first and only time 3 astronauts performed an EVA at the same time.

At the time I worked at Hughes Aircraft two of the satellites were retrieved and returned to Hughes for refurbishment because they failed to reach synchronous orbit. I remember going over to the lab and looked at the solar panels. We saw a number of pits in the panels. It was determined later that the material in the pits was paint.

On another occasion they retrieved the Solar Max satellite and repaired it and set it back in it’s orbit. Actually that was the first time they ever tried to recapture and repair a satellite.

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