When I picked up these KLM's over in Lompoc, the fellow works at Vandenburg, and he told me that alot of the ballast is nothing but concrete !! Can you imagine all that concrete chunks out there and they know where the majority are....amazing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocky Jones" [email protected] To: "Rocky Jones" [email protected] Cc: "Amsat BB" [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:57:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [amsat-bb] Good story on TDRSS 1
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/13tdrs/
as I recall there were 50 some odd pounds of ballast launched with the bird...to bad it wasnt an amateur repeater.
Robert WB5MZO
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