Space mirror experiment fails when antenna fouls deployment
Cosmonauts on Mir and ground controllers here abandoned their attempt to use an orbiting thin-film mirror to pinpoint a beam of light on Earth after an unrelated antenna on the discarded Progress cargo capsule carrying the experiment deployed by mistake and fouled the reflector's deployment. The...
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