The followin is from ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-024.txt ============ COMPTON GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY RE-ENTRY ACTIVITIES On Sunday, June 4, the successful nine-year mission of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) will end when NASA redirects the spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere. Debris from the controlled re-entry is expected to fall in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, approximately 2,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. NASA controllers will fire CGRO's thrusters four times to lower the observatory's orbit. After each burn, mission trackers at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, will determine the observatory's exact position and, if necessary, adjust the descent. The engine burns will occur at: Re-entry Burn #1: 9:54 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 30 Re-entry Burn #2: 10:41 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 31 Re-entry Burn #3: 1:37 a.m. EDT Sunday, June 4 Re-entry Burn #4: 3:05 a.m. EDT, Sunday, June 4 . . . . <cut> ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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