National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Skylab is falling: strategies for reentry
Study · written 1 June 1979 · released 1 June 1979
Why this matters
A 1979 conference paper on options for controlling the reentry of the abandoned Skylab station, written as solar activity dragged it down faster than planned. Skylab came down in July 1979, scattering debris across Western Australia. The paper shows the engineering choices made in the final weeks.
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790063233
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Space Program Post-Mortems
1979: steering a dead station home.
Cite
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Skylab is falling: strategies for reentry." 1 June 1979. Released 1 June 1979. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790063233 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0045).
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