Compton Reentry
NASA ended the nine-year career of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory successfully last week when the remains of the 33,000-lb. spacecraft fell into the Pacific Ocean where they were forecast to impact. About 12,000 lb. of hardware was estimated to have survived the reentry, but NASA officials don't...
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