Harro wrote: > "The Orbital Debris Quarterly News" ... reports that a large > piece of 1993-032C ... was recovered in Saudi Arabia.... Many thanks to Harro for posting this! There's a link from this story to one that has good photos of the tank from 23852/96-024B that landed near a farmhouse about 50 km north of here in 1997. Somehow I had missed that story and was very interested in the new one also. Here's a link to the older story: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/v2i2/v2i2-2.html#news4 It includes this statement: > After delivering its MSX payload to a 902 x 911 km, sun- > synchronous orbit, the rocket body was commanded to perform a > propellant-depletion burn which moved the vehicle into a 207 > by 860 km orbit. I don't remember hearing that Deltas do depletion burns and wonder if it would be even remotely possible to see one. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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