French contribution to the final tracking of Skylab is reported. Specifically, interagency collaboration within the French scientific community and French cooperation with NASA are detailed. Global tracking operations organization is described and the tracking equipment used is cited. A rundown of significant events affecting operations support over the final 24 hr of Skylab orbital lifetime is presented. An eyewitness account (Skylab public release information No. 19) of the vehicle reentry and breakup is quoted. A chronological recapitulation of messages exchanged the French space agency and NASA is also given.
The Reentry of Skylab: Reentry Tracking Operations Support Skylab. Suivi de la Rentree du Point de Vue Operations
1979
198 pages
Report
No indication
English
Spacecraft Trajectories & Flight Mechanics , Astronautics , Unmanned Spacecraft , Information flow , International cooperation , Radar tracking , Skylab program , Uncontrolled reentry (Spacecraft) , Global tracking network , Ground stations , Impact prediction , Orbit calculation , Windows (Intervals) , Foreign technology
Reentry of Skylab: Operational Aspects
NTIS | 1981
|Reentry of Skylab (Orbital Computation Aspect)
NTIS | 1981
|Skylab is falling - Strategies for reentry
NTRS | 1979
|Torque equilibrium attitude control for Skylab reentry
NTRS | 1979
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