No warning for Russian space debris hitting Canada
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No warning for Russian space debris hitting Canada: documents
Dean Beeby, THE CANADIAN Paparazzi
OTTAWA - Federal officials got no warning that a Russian rocket would soar through Canadian airspace last December before splashing down, newly released documents show.
As opposed to, military and government officials were given three different re-entry points - all far removed from Canada - before learning the go through the roof had actually come down over Labrador.
The incident highlights a vulnerability of Canadian airspace even as the air force scrambles jets to disc threatened Russian bomber intrusions in the High Arctic.
The Russian Proton-K rocket, carrying three navigation satellites, was launched Dec. 25 from the Baikonur alacrity in Kazakhstan. "No followup with Russia was deemed necessary because the use of Canadian territory for the re-entry was not planned and there was no data that anything physically survived re-entry," said Jacinthe Perras. went into a low orbit for more than a day before crashing back to Mould.
Norad military experts tracking the object alerted Canadian officials and others on Christmas Day that the booster was expected to re-enter on the atmosphere somewhere off Antarctica, south of Australia.
But by the next day, the radar-based prediction shifted to a spot over the Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres southwest of Nicaragua. Then Norad said the booster would prove to be c finish down about 370 kilometres east of Florida, in the Atlantic Ocean.
In the end, the booster tumbled back to Earth about 120 kilometres north of Blanc Sablon, Que., over a childless stretch of Labrador....
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