XPost: sci.space.history, sci.space.shuttle   
   From: jrfrank@ibm-pc.borg.retro.com   
      
   Brian Thorn  wrote in   
   news:npjvsv41hr3hpkiqk6lm17fmjk7rcl4tpk@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:31:53 GMT, A Hubble Hubble   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> Current plan is to launch the prop module on an ELV when HST is no   
   >>>> longer able to produce science.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> We should talk to the Russians; a modified Progress could do this   
   >>> job at fairly low cost.   
   >>>   
   >>> Pat   
   >   
   >>It's my understanding that the approach rate of the Progress is too   
   >>fast.  HST is "delicate" and needs something better than Progress.   
   >   
   > And Progress can't reach Hubble's altitude.   
      
   Or inclination, at least until the pad in Kourou is operational.   
      
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