From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!grkermit!earle
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Saving the Shuttle External Tank - Correction
Article-I.D.: grkermit.306
Posted: Wed Mar 16 09:12:48 1983
Received: Wed Mar 23 00:34:13 1983
References: grkermit.305

The article I referred to was in the February 1983 issue of L-5 News, not
Space World as I said yesterday.  For a 200 km. orbit, the ET decays in
almost no time at all, but if you can get it into a 500 km. orbit its
"natural" life will be up to about 5 1/2 years, but with tethered minimum
drag orientation that goes to over 35 years!

To give credit where it is due, the L-5 News article was by David Brin.

Earle T. Fettig
GenRad Concord, MA