An orbital maintenance platform docks an orbiting booster ?
An orbital maintenance platform (OMP) docks 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 mobile spacecraft system will have a total length of 110 feet with a maximum diameter of 18 feet
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© Stocktrek Images / Mary Evans
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Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images
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