Drama in space: GRO gets much-needed boost. (Compton Gamma Ray Observatory's orbit altered)

From: Science News | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Cowen, Ron | Copyright information

After two years of unsuccessful maneuvers and anxious analyses, NASA engineers last month boosted the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory GRO) back to a higher-altitude Earth orbit, averting a potential disaster. Had the craft continued to descend, the space agency would have lost control of it this April, forfeiting the ability to determine where large chunks of the 17-ton observatory would have struck Earth early next summer, NASA scientists say.

Long before NASA launched G...

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