[meteorite-list] SNOE Satellite rentry coming in days

From: SpdEJones <jonee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:39 2004
Message-ID: <3FD07332.6070605_at_epix.net>

*SNOE satellite to re-enter atmosphere in coming days*
*UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-BOULDER NEWS RELEASE*
Posted: December 2, 2003

A $5 million University of Colorado at Boulder satellite dubbed the
"Little Satellite That Did" now is expected to re-enter the atmosphere
and burn up in early December following a successful six-year mission.

The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer, or SNOE, is carrying instruments that
have measured nitric oxide in the upper atmosphere that affects Earth's
ozone layer, the intensity of X-rays from the sun and ultraviolet light
from Earth's aurora. Developed at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for
Atmospheric and Space Physics by students, engineers and faculty, the
mission has been controlled from LASP's CU Research Park facility 24
hours a day by students and faculty since early 1998.

<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0312/02snoe/>
Received on Fri 05 Dec 2003 06:59:46 AM PST