two more pieces of orbital debris!

Philip Chien (kc4yer@amsat.org)
Sat, 13 Jan 1996 06:08:45 -0400

I watched both solar arrays get ejected from SFU - on NASA TV.  There was
an excellent elevation pass - but completely clouded over here this
morning.

By coincidence when the two SFU arrays were ejected they were almost at the
exact same latitude and longitude as the Hubble Solar Array which was
tossed overboard during the STS-61 shuttle mission.  However that array was
at a much higher altitude.



Philip Chien, Earth News - space writer and consultant  PCHIEN@IDS.NET
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