Compton GRO splashes down in Pacific, apparently without incident
NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory ended its nine-year career early Sunday when as much as 12,000 pounds of the 33,000-pound spacecraft splashed into the Pacific after a controlled reentry monitored by a U.S. Air Force Cobra Ball missile-tracking aircraft. Controllers at Goddard Space Flight...
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