Timeline for Can Soyuz be used to perform maintenance on satellites
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| Jun 28, 2016 at 9:14 | comment | added | SF. | Personally, I believe a much more viable way would be to equip the astronauts with a good, reliable propulsion unit, forfeit any docking/tethering attempts, and have the astronauts fly to the satellite, tether to it and work on it directly; then, when the repair is done, maneuver Soyuz back into vicinity and return using the APUs | |
| Aug 14, 2015 at 3:10 | comment | added | Deer Hunter | STS-49 did grapple a satellite manually. It required several EVAs and three crewmembers doing the grappling, but it worked. | |
| Aug 13, 2015 at 23:28 | comment | added | Joshua | I'd seriously consider grappling the satellite with straps while on EVA then work on it. The pilot can use rcs to keep close enough. | |
| Aug 13, 2015 at 20:59 | vote | accept | Antzi | ||
| Aug 13, 2015 at 19:57 | history | edited | Andrew is gone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2015 at 19:22 | history | answered | Andrew is gone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |