On Tuesday 17 January 2006 05:39 pm, satcom wrote: > On the pad and ready to go.......good NASA sat tv pics coming into the UK. > > Can anyone tell me why this launcher has such a large fairing , for such a > small payload ? I was wondering the same thing. All I can think of is the solid rocket third stage requires it for some reason (width?). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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