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After days of seeming uncertainty, official satellite-watchers announced Tuesday that a dead NASA satellite broke up over the South Pacific, about as far away from large land masses as you can get.
NASA said the U.S. Air Force calculated that the 20-year-old Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite entered Earth's atmosphere generally above American Samoa at midnight ET Friday. Pieces of it started hitting the water another 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the northeast, southwest of Christmas Island, NASA said. "It's a relatively uninhabited portion of the world, very remote," NASA orbital debris scientist Mark Matney said.
"This is certainly a good spot in terms of risk."
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Originally posted by summer5
Does all seem very strange indeed!
As usually is the case, in suspect cover-up co-incidents, we will probably never know one way or the other
Argentine engineer Pablo de Leon won the contest organized by the U.S. space agency NASA to develop an infrastructure which will allow manned exploration of the Moon. A cylinder-foot inflated diameter of ten long, among other characteristics specified in the design was developed by De Leon, chosen by NASA for its mission to spend six months in the lunar environment, a fact which is expected before 2020. Argentine space researcher will lead the development of a prototype system for manned exploration to return to the Moon, which includes the development of laboratories and inflatable habitats, pressurized rovers and spacesuits improvements.
m24digital.com...
(Reuters) - A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid temperatures and winds of more than 47 mph as researchers tried out techniques for collecting soil samples on Mars. "This was the first time we took the suit to such an extreme, isolated environment so that if something went wrong we couldn't just go to the store" and buy a repair kit, De Leon told Reuters recently after returning from the one week expedition. The $100,000 prototype suit, created with NASA funds, is made out of more than 350 materials, including tough honeycomb Kevlar and carbon fibers to reduce its weight without losing resistance.
www.reuters.com...
Originally posted by Aliensun
OMG! Another person that wants to take seriously a dubious statement from the US government that it has no idea where its satellite crashed! Does this person have any concept of how we track even ball-bearing sized objects in space? I guess not.
This seems to be a regular tactic here on ATS: the government says something that some of us know to be a lie and works it into some off-tanget thread. This tactic is happening too frequently. Part of the old "divide and conquer" strategy? Or just various individuals putting a novel twist on current events for the sake of meaningless entertainment for all?
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Originally posted by Aliensun
OMG! Another person that wants to take seriously a dubious statement from the US government that it has no idea where its satellite crashed! Does this person have any concept of how we track even ball-bearing sized objects in space? I guess not.
This seems to be a regular tactic here on ATS: the government says something that some of us know to be a lie and works it into some off-tanget thread. This tactic is happening too frequently. Part of the old "divide and conquer" strategy? Or just various individuals putting a novel twist on current events for the sake of meaningless entertainment for all?
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