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Old March 26th 18, 07:45 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Chris.B[_3_]
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Default Crappy Chinese space station falling out of the sky any day now

On Sunday, 25 March 2018 12:04:04 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
Check-out the detector device. Looks like a Samyang manual focus lens attached to a CCD camera of some kind.

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-track-...ion-falls.html


You can't have it both ways, sunshine. They built their sensor themselves for relative peanuts around standard components. Instead of throwing sacks of money at their commercial vendor friends. With open ended development contracts. Like N$S$, or The Pentagoon$ would have done.