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- From: tes@motif.uucp (Thomas E. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Tracking
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.013651.19941@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Software Technology Branch, NASA/Johnson Space Center
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:36:51 GMT
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- >Of course, what were really interested in is how far down range the rocket
- >lands. That 'B' egglofter I chased for 1.5 hours was only moving at 4 or 5
- >miles ground speed (same as the 1/2A streamer I'd chased earlier) but I have
- >no idea how far away it landed - I gave up when it disappeared as a tiny dot
- >over head - I don't think an X-form would have made any difference in that
- >thermal :-)
- >
- >-Roger
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- Try chasing a rocket with a G motor :) . I lost sight of it after it went
- behind the clouds. I was wondering if there were any smoke devices you could
- put in your rocket to track it. One that wouldn't have any danger of starting
- a grass fire when it landed?
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- | It's not my damn planet, understand | Tom E. Smith |
- | Monkey Boy?!! John Bigbootey | tes@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov |
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