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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #20 on: 04/17/2006 06:58 pm »
What are projected impact sites for ESAS hardware?

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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #21 on: 04/17/2006 07:43 pm »
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rsp1202 - 17/4/2006  2:58 PMWhat are projected impact sites for ESAS hardware?

Water.

I was just going to leave at that but...

The range policy is 200 miles from foreign land masses.  Specific areas are vehicle and mission dependent

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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #22 on: 04/17/2006 11:42 pm »
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Jonesy STS - 18/4/2006  1:13 AM

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Ben - 17/4/2006  4:18 PM
A lot of American rocket parts have come down in Africa over the years and fallen into the same fate.
And some has floated as far as New Zealand - we had a delta 2nd stage pressurant tank float onto a beach down here in 2003. Must have been in the ocean a fair while - it had been beautifully polished by the water!

What happened to it? Would have been cool to have a look at.
Its apparently sitting in someone's living room down here! The Astronomical Society down here (of which I'm a member) is trying to reach a deal with the owner to buy it, to go into the museum down here. I don't think there are any photos online of it, but I'll see what I can do.

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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #23 on: 04/18/2006 01:35 am »
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bobrogg - 16/4/2006  11:50 AMAll,Take a look and tell me what you think, I'm glad I don't live under this "flight path"Bobhttp://todayspictures.slate.com/20060412/
The context of the photographed hardware isn't clear to me.  Space launch vehicle stages out of Baikonur are supposed to fall into predefined "drop boxes" in unpopulated or sparsely populated areas.  There are failures, of course, that could drop hardware anywhere along the flight path.  Are these photos of launch failures, or of hardware that strayed from drop boxes, or of hardware that fell into drop boxes and was salvaged by people who moved in later? - Ed Kyle

Russian propaganda sure worked good on you.   What is you definition of "sparsely", it might be different.

This has be going on since the 50's.  The predefined "drop boxes" exist but over what "type" of area is a matter of opinion

If it was Russian propaganda, it was published out of the headquarters
of a well known space launch company based in McClean, Virginia.  

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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #24 on: 04/18/2006 06:44 am »
Damn those communists in Virginia ;)

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RE: Be glad you don't live under the flight path
« Reply #25 on: 04/18/2006 01:10 pm »
During the Launch Campaign of GIOVE-A, I was given the following "drop sites"

First stage:          No 67, Karaganda district, Republic of Kazakhstan
Payload fairing:   East Kazakhstan district and Karaganda district, Republic of Kazakhstan
Second stage:      No 307, Altay district, Republic of Altay (Russia), East Kazakhstan district, Republic of Kazakhstan
Tail section:         No 309 Altay district, Republic of Altay (Russia), East Kazakhstan district, Republic of Kazakhstan
Third stage:        Pacific Ocean Region

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