Re: (meteorobs) NASA's Successful Compton Gamma-Ray Telescope Mission Comes To An End

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) NASA's Successful Compton Gamma-Ray Telescope Mission Comes To An End
• From: Stuart Saunders <stuart@ficnetdot net>
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:44:02 +0800
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Thought this was interesting.

Ron Baalke wrote:

>
> NASA'S SUCCESSFUL COMPTON GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPE MISSION COMES TO AN END
>
>      NASA's extremely productive and long-lived Compton Gamma-Ray
> Observatory mission -- which exceeded its mission by four years
> and completely changed ideas on the most important unsolved
> puzzles in astrophysics -- has come to end with the failure of one
> of the satellite's three gyroscopes.
>
>      NASA plans to safely direct the satellite back into Earth's
> atmosphere no earlier than June 1 with the remaining two
> gyroscopes, which are used to steer the craft.

>     The decision to reenter Compton before_a second gyroscope
> fails_, even though the satellite is functioning normally ..........

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• (meteorobs) NASA's Successful Compton Gamma-Ray Telescope Mission Comes To An End
• From: Ron Baalke <baalke@zagami.jpl.nasadot gov>

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