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Flight computer likely botched YES2 tether deployment

Submit on Friday, November 9th, 2007 05:26

Contrary to early indications, the Fotino experiment aboard the student-built YES2 satellite may have been successful… in a way. New analysis has shown that the spacecraft fully deployed a 31.7-km tether, but not as planned.

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