EL SEGUNDO, 30 March-the first reentry designed break-up of recorder (REBR), an instrument and built by engineers at the Aerospace Corporation, successfully recorded data as it through the atmosphere on Tuesday evening aboard the disintegrating Japanese HTV-2 probe crashed.
The REBR then "called home" the data of the Iridium satellite system when it fell in South Pacific on Tuesday evening.
"It beautiful, done," said Dr. Bill Ailor, Director of the Center for orbital and reentry debris studies and REBR development team leader aerospace. "The data we have collected is absolutely unique and will shed new light on the phenomenon such as satellite and launch to break levels on reentry."
Although it survive to the impact with the water was developed, the REBR were actually intact and continue to transmit data for hours as it plunged into the ocean between Chile and New Zealand. Analysis of the data takes six to eight weeks.
The REBR is a small independent record temperature, acceleration, rotation rate and other data is storage device as a ship of the Earth's atmosphere occurs.
The Aerospace Corporation developed space hardware to separate REBR to collect data during the atmospheric reentries and increase the safety of such reentries. The REBR project was supported by the United States air force, NASA and the Boeing Company. The first flight test for the small, autonomous unit, coordinated by the Department of defense space test program.
A second REBR the atmosphere on board the European ATV2 will enter the vehicle June again.
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