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Solar Power Satellite System Definition Study, Phase II Final Briefing, Volume V, D180-25461-5, NASA-CR-160380, 5 November 1979
Boeing Aerospace Company, with Grumman (construction charts carry the Grumman mark) ·1979 · T3 government or agency report · VC01VC06VC11
Commissioned by NASA Johnson Space Center, contract NAS9-15636. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.
D180-25461-5; NASA-CR-160380; N80-12109 the identifier this document is registered under
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- CLM-0976 In the 1979 Boeing design the machines that extrude the satellite's beams ran at 5 metres a minute, with about half an hour of fixed handling per beam segment, and the assembly line that laid beams and unrolled solar blankets together advanced at half a metre a minute.
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