Satellite Celebrates 20 Years Working in Orbit 199
lloydwood writes "The UoSAT-2/UO-11 small satellite was launched into low Earth orbit on 1 March 1984 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Twenty years later, it's still in orbit and operational -- and we recently found launch footage. To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of starting in orbit, the original video celebrating the UoSAT-2 launch is available (in windows media and mpeg). Thrill to the computers, the clothes, and the haircuts of 1984. SSTL has launched more than twenty satellites since."
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why was there such a rush to deorbit the Iridium satellite constellation?
They are fairly large birds, large enough that pieces of them may reach the surface, so they much prefer to deorbit them under control than wait for them to fail and reenter wherever they will.
Also, I recall hearing (but cannot confirm) that there is now an international treaty that puts some requirements on satellite operators to try to reduce the amount of space debris. One of the Motorolla guys on the Irridium project told me that each bird has a command-loss timer that, eventually, causes it to deorbit autonomously if nobody has talked to it for a long time. This is all hearsay; it'd be nice to hear from someone who actually knows something.
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http://www.maxlyrics.com/songView/9757
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