> Just to clarify, are you saying that the intention was to do a burn that > would have brought Briz-KM down to an almost immediate re-entry > ? EUROCKOT's reply to my query indicated that an immediate re-entry was > not planned and they had intended to leave the stage in a low-perigee > orbit and allow natural decay to take place over a few weeks time. > > If a burn to bring the stage out ot Earth orbit was planned then the lack > of propellant at the time that the burn took place would indicate a > failure - albeit a fairly minor one - of the rocket stage. Hi Phillip, There was no failure of the rocket stage. It was known before launch that there would not be enough fuel left for an immediate re-entry. It was considered acceptable to lower the perigee to 150km and allow decay to occur naturally over a few weeks. Regards, Chris Chris Peat Heavens-Above GmbH E-Mail: chris.peat@heavens-above.com Web site: www.heavens-above.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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