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Satellite Power Systems (SPS) Concept Definition Study (Exhibit D), Volume IV: Operations Analyses, NASA CR-3395, March 1981

Commissioned by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, contract NAS8-32475. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-0983 Rockwell's crew is around nine hundred because it runs three shifts round the clock with a fourth crew resting, and at any moment fewer than ninety of the two hundred-odd on shift are actually building the frame. The machine speed was assumed, not measured, and forty per cent was added for joints and downtime.

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