Archives for 28 March 2007
Burning Pieces of Space Junk Just Miss Airliner
Published on 28 Mar 2007 at 7:11 pm.
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Filed under Exploration, Physics, Space.
And now for the unforeseen…
A Russian satellite deorbited last night and narrowly missed a LanChile Airbus A340 travelling between Santiago, Chile and Aukland, New Zealand. The pilot radioed air traffic control at Auckland Oceanic Centre and reported flaming space junk re-entering both in front and behind his plane at a distance of five nautical miles. […]
