Ancient history question -- Feng Bao failure July 27, 1979, hits Australia? I'm trying to confirm this story -- does anyone have any insights into if the parts recovered in Australia really did come from the Chinese launch? To tell the truth, I'm really worried about the launch ground track issues (69 deg inclination, presumably, or maybe 59 if was a recoverable) ... Could the recovery have been a coincidental Russian satellite entry? [Interesting story: on July 27, 1979 a Chinese Space launch (Feng Bao 1, FB-1, Storm, closely related to a CZ-2C) failed during its 2nd stage burn out of Jiuquan Space Center. The craft exploded and parts fell in the outback near Birdsville, Queensland, Australia. Australian Regular Army forces found pieces and parts with Cyrillic printed all over it] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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