Re: Sea Launch payload
Robert Smathers (roberts@nmia.com)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:44:12 -0700 (MST)
Philip Chien wrote:
>
> It does not have any transmitting equipment or transponders, so once it was
> ejected it became a dead mass in orbit.
hmmm, I thought Demosat had one transmitter - the telecast made it seem
like some of the data collected and recorded by Demosat would be
downlinked to the ground after spacecraft separation.
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