Seeing how the mines are in orbits that are well-defined you could perhaps outfit some as controlers, with improved sensors, the systems to power them and enough communicators to pass the data off to the live mines.
Eamon
--- On Tue, 3/8/10, Tim O'Reilly <> wrote:
Regarding sensors ... yeah there's a trade off for qual of sensor and power usage, but if that is a passive system then its going to be still on the small side for power, it's the active systems that get hoggish
T