An orbital maintenance platform approaches an orbiting ?
An orbital maintenance platform (OMP) approaches an orbiting booster in low Earth orbit. Once connected the booster will loft the OMP to a gravitationally stable Lagrangian point about 700 thousand miles beyond the orbit of the Earth's Moon. This booster is 40 feet long, 17 feet in diameter and employs a single liquid-propellant rocket engine
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11106167
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48431967
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5370px x 3386px
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© Stocktrek Images / Mary Evans
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Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images
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