> "Kosmos-2377 was launched on May 29 into a 165 x 358 km x 67.1 deg > orbit, > typical of the Yantar' class reconnaissance satellite. This > generation > of Yantar', possibly called Kobal't, carries a large recoverable > capsule > containing the camera system and film, as well as two small film > capsules returned during the mission. The satellite will probably > remain in space for around 120 days with a landing around Sep 26." I had thought the days of returning film back down to the Earth from recon. satellites was over - that everybody now uses digital imagers in orbit, and just beam the data back down to Earth? I would think that the later would be cheaper - such a satellite would have a lifetime of around 10 years. Perhaps the Russians merely have some old satellites just laying around on the shelf? And want to put them to some use? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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