Sebastian Stabroth wrote: > > does someone know what the status of the Inflatable Reentry Descent > Technology-Demonstrator 2 is? Did it really launch last week and was it > recovered? > According to Posledniye kosmicheskye novosti (Recent Space News, in Russian language) by Alexander Zheleznyakov launch of Volna launcher from submarine K-44 "Ryazan'" in Barents Sea on July 12th, 00:58 UTC went well, IRDT-2 was put on ballistic trajectory ending in the target area on Kamchatka Peninsula but IRDT-2 itself was not found there. Last word (as yet) was issued on the fourth day of the search operations with negative results. http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/hotnews/index.shtml -- Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420(2)21403255, fax +420(2)24240611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html FOR SENDING VOLUMINOUS APPENDED FILES (greater than 250 KB) USE ALTERNATE ADDRESS:vitek1@lib.cas.cz and notify me at avitek@lib.cas.cz ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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