A friend of mine found it and I took the pictures. If this was launched from Guyana how did it get to the yucatan in this short of a time frame? Wouldnt a payload fairing impact the eastern atlantic? It would have to travel thousands of miles to get here.
Looks like the 2009-05-14 Herschel, Planck fairing. There is writing on it that says Sylda antenna. Did a search for sylda and came up with the herschel plank reference. Where would the payload fairing impact?
You might want to warn your friend that usually Arianespace wants stuff like this back.....
Quote from: Jester on 02/20/2010 03:35 pmYou might want to warn your friend that usually Arianespace wants stuff like this back.....Unless someone from Arianespace is lurking here I say keep it and mount it on your wall or something :-p
A friend of mine found it and I took the pictures.
I can check at work on monday, but if I remember correct the tag id image above shows the serial as being C547 which would make it TerreStar-1P.S.You might want to warn your friend that usually Arianespace wants stuff like this back.....
The locals found it along the beach and turned it into a hot tub. Eventually the French came and took it from them....
Some number of years ago an Ariane nose cone washed up on the shores of South Texas after being carried there by ocean currents, etc. The locals found it along the beach and turned it into a hot tub. Eventually the French came and took it from them....