At 13:23 2000/04/13 +0930, Tony Beresford wrote: > For example , their are 88 Iridium satellites >At least 8 are not under control, and will have to deorbit naturally >in some 25-50 years. But some will come down a lot quicker than that. 98-51D and 98-66C would decay naturally in July this year - just 3 months away. 97-82D and 97-51D look likely to decay in the last quarter of this year. This is providing Motorola (Iridium) don't power them to decay, where possible. I don't see why they should, since the Atmosphere is doing the job for them. ----------------------------------------------------------------- best wishes Russell Eberst @ North: 55 degrees, 56 minutes, 55 seconds: West: 3 degrees, 8 minutes, 18 seconds: 43metres (150 feet) above sea-level. 177525 Observations ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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