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Old 02-December-2005, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by joema
I think the shuttle requires at a minimum a very long runway with an ILS (Instrument Landing System). In fact the preferred abort sites have a Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System -- only a few runways world wide have that.
We tend to call the MLS the "video2000 of the landing systems".

(the better system that just didn't make it)
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