Space Tugboat to Refuel Satellites

Faeton sent in this article about a proposed space tugboat to refuel aging satellites. Looks like they're just going to bolt on some extra thrusters with a new fuel supply, guidance system, etc.

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Re:What ever happened to ion drives?

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The highest altitude a shuttle has ever achieved, IIRC, is around 490 miles.

Rubbish. I saw a documentary only last week where a suttle left the Earth's orbit and went thousands of miles out into space to land on an asteroid. They didn't have extra fuel tanks in teh cargo bay eitehr, cos it was full of these neat, large-wheeled, big trucks fitted with drills and machien guns and everything - they could even jump mile wide cnayons. You just ask the leader of the mission, Harry S. Stamper , a rough-neck, Texas oil man and his team of expert oil drillers if it ain't so!