Phillip Clark wrote: > see which of these two rockets _could_ have been the culprit. The 1 > metre sphere described maks a rocket stage more likely than a satellite, > but thinking about the designs of these stages I cannot recall such a > component being carried - certainly not a main propulsion tank. The Delta 2 second stage contains a few helium and nitrogen spherical tanks at the base of the stage. What I'm not sure is if this is a standard configuration. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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