[meteorite-list] Re: (meteorobs) Artificial meteorites head back into space

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jun 1 16:15:21 2005
Message-ID: <002d01c566e6$9ebc02c0$2f01a8c0_at_Dell>

Not off topic at all! MOST approriate. Let's see if the little beastees can
survive reentry. Poor things! Glad they didn't tie me on!!!
Chalk up one to life's space travel MAYBE! Jerry
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: (meteorobs) Artificial meteorites head back
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> WOW !
>
> En un mensaje con fecha 06/01/2005 4:38:56 AM Mexico Daylight Time,
> david.entwistle_at_dial.pipex.com escribe:
>
> Collated from a collection of announcements and websites. I hope this
> isn't considered off-topic.
>
> 31 May 2005
> An unmanned Foton-M spacecraft carrying a mainly European payload was
> put into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-U launcher today at 14:00 Central
> European Time (18:00 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
> Kazakhstan. Following the launch and nine minutes of propelled flight,
> the Foton-M2 spacecraft is now in low-earth orbit where it will remain
> for 16 days before its re-entry module lands close to the Russian/Kazakh
> border.
>
> The European payload carried by Foton-M2 covers a scientific programme
> consisting of 39 experiments in fluid physics, biology, material
> science, meteoritics, radiation dosimetry and exobiology.
>
> Of particular interest, the STONE-5 experiment considers artificial
> meteorites of sedimentary origin and aims to study the physical,
> chemical and biological modifications caused by atmospheric entry.
>
> Three different types of rock, loaded with micro-organisms, are mounted
> at the stagnation point in the heat shield (the hottest region during
> re-entry) of the Foton-M2 re-entry capsule. During re-entry into the
> atmosphere at the end of the two-week flight the three rocks will be
> subjected to temperature and pressure loads comparable to those
> experienced by meteorites.
>
> You can read more here:
>
> Foton M2 launch announcement from ESA'a web site.
> http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMZDJ0DU8E_index_0.html
>
> Details of the STONE experiment from ESA's Erasmus Experiment Archive
> http://tinyurl.com/7m7c8
>
> Esrange Satellite Operations
> http://www.ssc.se/default.asp?groupid=2004621135048841
>
> --
> David Entwistle
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