I am forwarding new message obtained from COPUOS regardig Ugandan fragment: <Quote begin> You will be interested in the email below from Chris Bonnal of CNES, regarding the 27 March reentry of the Ariane upper stage over Uganda. -----Original Message----- From: Bonnal Christophe [mailto:Christophe.Bonnal@cnes.fr] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:06 AM To: JOHNSON, NICHOLAS L. (NICK) (JSC-SX) (NASA) Cc: Alby Fernand Subject: RE: Ariane V13 Nick, ..... thanks for the information: it is clearly the High Pressure vessel of the Upper Stage H8, made of Titanium. I have'nt checked yet the exact definition of the vessel (overwrap with some Carbon or not, type of Titanium, ticknesses, ...); we need to do a bit of research since the definition has changed several times these last decades. I will let you know when I'll find the exact definition. I discussed the point with Fernand, and we will try our best to recover the sphere: it is not so often that we have the capacity to recover an item which has survived a reentry, for which we have a very knowledge and which belongs to us. So David will probably contact the ad-hoc embassy to see what we can do. Best regards, Christophe <?Quote end> -- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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