>I dismissed that series of passes as if some of the debris is going to come >down in the next half rev , it could make landfall over Canada >which rather defeats the object...... ???? >John Actually it does make sense from the perspective that any 'sensitive' bits that survive land in your NORAD partners backyard, that and the debris field can be tracked by our optical CASTOR network. If you want the best monitored/controlled airspace for this sort of thing it doesn't get any better. Most of the pass is over high latitude areas up here, sparse population is a given ... we're pretty 'spread out':=) We've also have had some previous experience in joint satellite cleanup/recovery exercises (Cosmos 954), just in case there is an alternate power source onboard. Walter Ridgewell, Medicine Hat, Alberta 50.0208 N 110.6250 W ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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