terpkristin
10-02-2006, 07:41 PM
This probably only "amuses" me but...
"Satellite-handlers at Baikonur accidentally dropped the MetOp-A weather satellite, according to reports dated Saturday. How much (if any) damage the satellite suffered is still unknown. Link (http://www.metoplc.esa.int/MetOp/Daily%20Reports/Daily%20Reports.html). Some butterfingers at Lockheed Martin dropped a similarly instrumented weather satellite (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/oops_baikonur_crew_d.html) back in 2003."
Maybe I should be worried, considering at least one of my satellites is expected to launch from Baikonur next year, but the fact that it's a weather satellite made me chuckle....
(linky (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/oops_baikonur_crew_d.html))
/tk
"Satellite-handlers at Baikonur accidentally dropped the MetOp-A weather satellite, according to reports dated Saturday. How much (if any) damage the satellite suffered is still unknown. Link (http://www.metoplc.esa.int/MetOp/Daily%20Reports/Daily%20Reports.html). Some butterfingers at Lockheed Martin dropped a similarly instrumented weather satellite (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/oops_baikonur_crew_d.html) back in 2003."
Maybe I should be worried, considering at least one of my satellites is expected to launch from Baikonur next year, but the fact that it's a weather satellite made me chuckle....
(linky (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/02/oops_baikonur_crew_d.html))
/tk