NASA's HETE, SAC-B re-enter attached to Pegasus third stage
NASA's first High Energy Transient Experiment (HETE) spacecraft, along with the Argentine SAC-B satellite, re-entered the atmosphere April 6, still attached to the Pegasus third stage from which they failed to separate in 1996. According to U.S. Space Command, which tracked the spacecraft, re-entry...
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