To: BurbankKarl
How do these satellites normally return to Earth?
56 posted on
02/14/2008 9:46:23 AM PST by
Brian S. Fitzgerald
("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
How do these satellites normally return to Earth?Normally, they fire their engines to put them on a re-entry trajectory that assures a shallow path, plenty of time to burn up, with the remaining pieces landing in the south Pacific. This time, the central computer failed and its trajectory can't be controlled.
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
How do these satellites normally return to Earth?
They usually have enough fuel to control the decay to maximize destruction during burn-up and send the surviving pieces somewhere into the Pacific Ocean.
64 posted on
02/14/2008 9:52:44 AM PST by
plsvn
To: Brian S. Fitzgerald
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116 posted on
02/14/2008 12:32:14 PM PST by
sam_paine
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