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Using The Moon To Fix That Stranded Comsat

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

March 5, 2006

Round-the-moon rescue?, MSNBC

“What can you do with a satellite in a useless orbit? That’s the question now facing the folks who built, launched and hoped to use the Arabsat 4A telecommunications satellite and one of the potential answers could involve an unorthodox trip all the way around the moon to get the orbit back in sync.”

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.