The YES2 tether, 32 (!) kilometers long, is scheduled to be launched on September 14 on a Soyuz from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Here is the YES2 website: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/YES/index.html This page has more information about the tether: http://www.esa.int/esaED/SEM0NIQJNVE_index_0.html "Not only will this be the longest artificial structure ever deployed in space, but it will also be the first time that a tether has been used to return a payload from space." Here's a page that discusses the tether's visibility in orbit (apparently very limited, perhaps due to a brief mission?) after deployment on Sept. 25: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/YES/SEMFSUWZK5F_0.html Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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