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Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Ian on Aug 17, 2002, 09:32:00

http://www.contour2002.org/news.php?id=19

really hope they make contact soon :smile:

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Mike on Aug 17, 2002, 19:17:00

NASA has a habit of losing spacecraft !

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Ian on Aug 17, 2002, 19:32:00

to lose one is unfortunate, to lose many looks like carelessness. Sorry Oscar.

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Rick on Aug 18, 2002, 04:43:00

The report for July 31st has a couple of interesting animations.

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Mike on Aug 19, 2002, 16:16:00

Looks like it's broken up !

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/contour-02h.html

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Ian on Aug 19, 2002, 16:38:00

what annoys me about things like this is not so much the spacecraft was lost, but that it mayh be used to throttle funding further. Anyone fancy emmigrating to China?

Title: Come in Contour, do you copy?
Post by: Rick on Aug 19, 2002, 18:18:00

Bother. NOw they'll have to figure out _why_ it's broken up...

Chalk another one up to Faster Cheaper Better... :sad:

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Astronomy => Alerts! Questions? Discussions... => Topic started by: Ian on Aug 17, 2002, 09:32:00