Re: Spy satellite unscheduled de-orbit

On Jan 27, 12:14 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian Thorn wrote:
It's probably the NRO satellite launched on a Delta II in 2006 that
promptly died (amateur observers noted that no solar panels were
visible.) At 20,000 lbs., it's not a giant like a KH-11.

That's a pretty good guess:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/us/27spy.html?ref=us


Indeed it is: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2008/0178.html



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