> Orbital says the rocket did recover on its own and flew the rest > of its mission as planned. Astonishing if true. The flight control system must be extremely robust, or the circumstances of the accident very lucky. > The OrbView-4 and QuikTOMS satellites were deployed from the > upper stage and reentered the Earth's atmosphere without completing > an orbit of Earth. Impact occurred in the Indian Ocean. Another illustration of why ILAMs are in the best interests of everyone. If the reentry had occurred a little later, the payloads would have come down in Russia. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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