Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle 3D model

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The Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle was a proposed augmentation of the Space Shuttle architecture. It would have effectively increased the Shuttle's operating range, by allowing satellites to be robotically retrieved for servicing and delivered to lower orbits. Simple tug operations also could have been performed without requiring astronaut involvement, and long-term use as a semipermanent spacecraft service module was also proposed. It would have also been complemented by an Orbital Transfer Vehicle, derived from the Centaur upper stage and capable of much larger manuevers. The version here was proposed by TRW Inc.