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but did it need to be attached to a manned space station, or could the observer run from a sattelite?
by baud147258 3y ago
but did it need to be attached to a manned space station, or could the observer run from a sattelite?
- jvanderbot 3y agoThe cost of attaching a satellite is more than attaching it to the ISS (which has large solar panels, processors, downlink equipment, etc). We are essentially shipping up an instrument only, rather than the instrument + all the supporting equipment. For a datacenter analogy, it's like adding a HD to a server, rather than buying a new server for more storage. It could run from a sat, but then we'd have much fewer missions we could fly.