Read the NASA stuff, watch the NASA mission status briefings. The whole point of *doing* a repair would be to not "spoil the shuttle's schedule." This damage is not considered to be a crew-safety risk, the only risk is concern over potential damage requiring a longer turn-around time on the ground.
"I am a new solar panel, I need to be pointed this way so that my 1 axis motor can track the sun"
Ignoring, for the moment, that the new solar array assembly has not yet had its rotation enabled at all, the solar arrays have 2 axis of rotation, not 1 - the alpha rotary joint (spin around the truss axis) and the beta rotary joint (twist perpendicular to that).
I sell you the keys to a company truck. That's permissible, right? After all, I had the keys, and since I could hand them to you, clearly I had the company's authorization to do so.
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Read the NASA stuff, watch the NASA mission status briefings. The whole point of *doing* a repair would be to not "spoil the shuttle's schedule." This damage is not considered to be a crew-safety risk, the only risk is concern over potential damage requiring a longer turn-around time on the ground.
"I am a new solar panel, I need to be pointed this way so that my 1 axis motor can track the sun" Ignoring, for the moment, that the new solar array assembly has not yet had its rotation enabled at all, the solar arrays have 2 axis of rotation, not 1 - the alpha rotary joint (spin around the truss axis) and the beta rotary joint (twist perpendicular to that).
I sell you the keys to a company truck. That's permissible, right? After all, I had the keys, and since I could hand them to you, clearly I had the company's authorization to do so.