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GOODBYE, TOPEX/POSEIDON
----------------------- The joint American and French Topex/Poseidon oceanography satellite ceased operations after nearly 62,000 orbits of Earth. The mission revolutionized the study of Earth's oceans and helped in hurricane and El Nino/La Nina forecasting. http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0601/07topex/ -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 20 2006, 03:39 PM
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TOPEX/Poseidon Final Status Report 18 January 2006
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19335 "This morning, at 9:41 am PST the TOPEX/Poseidon spacecraft mission was terminated. A series of command files was transmitted to the satellite to power off components, sensors, and heaters; close the propulsion system latch valves; remove (2 of the 3) batteries from the charge circuit; and, finally, turn off the telemetry transmitters." -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 20 2006, 03:44 PM
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I'll try and give it a wave when I can
 http://www.heavens-above.com/orbitdisplay....PST&satid=22076 Doug |
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