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Do you have a cite? Wikipedia doesn't mention it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite)
by jessriedel 8y ago
Do you have a cite? Wikipedia doesn't mention it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite)
- iamlemec 8y agoIt was on STS-27. It's mentioned in the Wikipedia page for that mission and also in this article: https://www.americaspace.com/2018/12/09/dying-all-tensed-up-30-years-since-the-troubled-secret-mission-of-sts-27/ https://www.americaspace.com/2018/12/09/dying-all-tensed-up-...
- jessriedel 8y agoThanks. That sounds like it there was a spacewalk to fix a deployment problem, not a recovery and re-deployment of a previously deployed satellite. That's not really relevant to the current context of "how often was the Shuttle doing something (capture-and-repair or recovery) that an expendable vehicle couldn't?".