"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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bob haller wrote:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1111/11phobosgrunt/

bad design low gain antenna cant communicate with earth, blocked by
stage that didnt seperate.....

so this fully fueled vehicle full of hydrazine will be returning
somewhere on earth......

imagine that coming down in a big city........


The sky is falling. THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!

It is a somewhat fair question. I mean we did use that as an excuse to
destroy USA 193 which only had about 450 kg of hydrazine fuel on it. This
has about 10x as much. So if one believes the reason for that, it's a valid
reason for this.


wonder if the us military will volunteer to destroy it to minimize the
risk.....


We can't. It doesn't belong to us.


Umm, BS Fred. We can certainly VOLUNTEER. Of course there's about zero
chance the Russians would accept. But nothing about us not owning it
prevents us from volunteering.



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