Skylab Reboost Module

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Skylab Reboost Module

Part of Skylab

Skylab Reboost Mod
Skylab Reboost Module

American logistics spacecraft. Cancelled 1980. Module developed for Shuttle to deliver to Skylab to boost it to a higher orbit for use during the Shuttle program.

Status: Cancelled 1980. Gross mass: 4,392 kg (9,682 lb). Unfuelled mass: 1,648 kg (3,633 lb). Height: 3.29 m (10.79 ft). Span: 3.35 m (10.99 ft).

Due to Shuttle development delays, Skylab re-entered and burned up over Australia before the first Shuttle mission, and NASA would have to wait another twenty years for a space station.

RCS total impulse: 6,115 kgf-sec.

Family: Logistics spacecraft. Country: USA. Launch Vehicles: Space Shuttle. Agency: NASA.

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Skylab Reboost Modul
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