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Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-05-2012 04:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
During the STS-41C mission, spacewalker James "Ox" van Hoften used the "module service tool" (MST) during the repair of the Solar Maximum ("Solar Max") Mission Satellite (SMMS).

Is anyone reading familiar with the design of this tool and its use in orbit? Are there details about how well it performed for the task at hand, replacing the satellite's faulty control system module?

Outside of contacting van Hoften directly, any other suggestions?

Jim Behling
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posted 01-05-2012 07:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I will look in my Fairchild files. I believe it is a torque-less wrench.

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