Re: ISS blanket

From: Bruno Tilgner (Bruno_Tilgner@compuserve.com)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 18:13:16 EDT

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>>BTW how quickly would something like that decay??

>Those objects will probably decay within one week.

Be careful. When one of the HST solar panels was severed during the
first servicing mission the same prediction was made. It turned out
to be wrong because the panel aligned itself so as to present the
smallest surface possible to the "wind" and it lived for many months.

Bruno Tilgner
48.85N 2.2E

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