Thanks for the info Harro- looks like a very useful site. However the link as posted does not work. It's early morning here (up early as preparation for ISS pass emerging from shadow halfway through a pass- but it's off as it is totally misty here!) so it took me a while to register what was wrong. You need to include the / character at the end so it is: http://www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/reentry/ Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.26100S, 174.94700E ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harro Zimmer" <Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:35 PM Subject: Re: Dangerous decay > > 1996-027A (#23857) BEPPOSAX > > The expected "dangerous" situation described in reports from Indonesia is extremely exaggerated. This is a "normal" decay > without any special risks. The inclination of the orbit > is 3.950 important only for equator very near regions. > The Italian X-ray satellite have a mass of 1400 kg with > dimensions of 2.4 x 3.6 x 18 m. The last figure represent the > solar array. There is 26 kg Hydrazine - from the attitude control > system - on bord - not unusual for a powered down satellite. > I expect the decay on 26 April +/- 03 days in good agreement > with the estimates from my Italian colleagues. They have a > special home page: > > www.asdc.asi.it/bepposax/reentry > > Harro > > Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de > Berlin, Germany > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org > List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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