Space - Runaway Satellite Spotted

(1 Mar 1996) T/I: 10:28:33 GS 10:35:16


The astronauts on the US space shuttle Columbia spotted their
runaway Italian satellite early on Friday (1/3). They took some
final pictures and videotapes of the object, which was sent adrift
into space after a tether broke. "It's the brightest object in the sky after the sun," Claude Nicollier told flight controllers at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston.

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USA / SPACE 1 MARCH,1996
Map at mission control tracking shuttle
Ongoing mid-deck glove box experiment by Lieutenant-Commander Franklin
Diaz
Video sent from camera in payload bay with mission control saying
shuttle and satellite reached closest point
Mission control
Pacific ocean below
Payload bay
Views of tethered satellite after moving into sunrise light
(looks like a straight needle)
Astronaut describing what he sees saying, the long line is the
tether and there is a little bit of debris that flies with us
illuminated by the sun
Longer shot of the tether at 100 miles
Mission control
Payload bay
View of earth from shuttle

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