Just heard the radio interview with Marco and the professional. Marco nicely described what we of Seesat-L all know; a lot is known about this sat, at least its orbit. He also mentioned a english observer who photographed this sat. At the end of the interview the professional was aksed: Can the americans blow up this sat? He answqered: They can, but likely would not in view of what happend with Fenyun 1C. And they were furois at the Chinese. A pity Marco wasn't given the chance to explain that USA 193 is in a very low orbit and debris would enter the earths atmosphere within a few days to weeks without any danger to other sats. Especially when the sat is destroyed in a few weeks at around 200 km. Fengyun 1C was at 850 km and the debris can stay in orbit for years. It was a very nice interview with sensable talk. Not the stuff we see now all over the internet with stories about dangerous debris falling to earth. Greetings Leo Barhorst ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> To: "satelliet lijst (SeeSat)" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Cc: "Bram Dorreman" <bram.dorreman@skynet.be> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:19 PM Subject: USA 193 item on Dutch radio tonight > Hi, > > For those of you in Northwest Europe who understand the Dutch language: > the > Dutch Radio 5 channel (sending at 747 AM frequency) will spend a 5 minute > item > on the USA 193 (06-057A) decay this evening between 21:00 and 22:00 as > part of their Hoe?Zo! science program by educational broadcaster TELEAC. > > Among the two guests interviewed will be yours truely, together with a > professor in Space technology. It was quite interesting to note that we as > amateur observing community appear to have more information about this > satellite than the professional interviewed (he actually started by > suggesting it was likely one of the Keyholes coming down and I had to > start by correcting him on that). > > Afterwards the broadcast will also become available on the internet at > some > point through http://radio5.omroep.nl/page/uitzendinggemist/a/f > > - Marco > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. > e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl > > Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL > SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > ----- > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: > 269.19.15/1249 - Release Date: 29-1-2008 9:51 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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