Apr 18 1992
From The Space Library
It was reported that in the upcoming flight of the Shuttle Endeavour, NASA would try for the first time to revitalize a crippled satellite while in orbit. During a four-day procedure, Endeavour's crew were to rendezvous with INTELSAT 6, pull the satellite into the spaceship's cargo bay and mate it to a new solid rock-et motor. INTELSAT 6 then would be released and its rocket motor fired to send it into a 22,300 mile-high orbit. The hope was that then, for the next 14 years, INTELSAT 6 would relay trans-Atlantic telephone calls and television shows from Europe to North America and South America. (W Times, Apr 18/92)
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