Not for refulling geosynchronous satellites though as the shuttle only goes up 300Km or so (Low Earth Orbit?). unless the satellite thought "ohh, need fuel", dropped to a lower orbit, picked up some gas & then nipped bak to higher orbit? EssoSpace division :)
must find the rather cute java app showing satellites orbits, can drag it around, rotate the earth, zoom in & out, highlist specific satellites. GPS satellites on that looked like a crowd of angry flies buzzing round the earth, with LEO satellites making a close to the surface sphere, the bunch of geostationary ones making a Saturnesque ring, and things like Chandra nipping well away from Earth then zooming back :) Way to waste hours wondering : http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html
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Date: 2003-10-21 07:43 am (UTC)must find the rather cute java app showing satellites orbits, can drag it around, rotate the earth, zoom in & out, highlist specific satellites. GPS satellites on that looked like a crowd of angry flies buzzing round the earth, with LEO satellites making a close to the surface sphere, the bunch of geostationary ones making a Saturnesque ring, and things like Chandra nipping well away from Earth then zooming back :)
Way to waste hours wondering : http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html