HETE REENTRY
A pair of satellites--which died for lack of power in 1996 after the third stage that carried them to orbit failed to release them--reentered the atmosphere over China on Apr. 6, along with the faulty stage. NASA's High Energy Transient Experiment (Hete) and Argentina's SAC-B spacecraft reentered at...
Subscription Required
This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.
Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.
Already an AWIN subscriber? Login
Did you know? Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.