Orbital Decay

<p class="p1">Afternoon Theatre: Orbital Decay</p> <p class="p1">Thu 19th Jul 1984, 15:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM</p> <p class="p1">by J.C. Wilsher</p> <p class="p1">Brittania Space Launch 1994. </p> <p class="p1">Buzz and Neil, the Astronaut Twins, along with their companion Peggy Sue set off on the routine job of recovering a faulty satellite. They discover, however, that the satellite has a strange unidentified module attached to it, and suddenly the recovery is routine no longer. </p> <p class="p1">Director:…..Gerry Jones</p> <p class="p1">Neil:….Nigel Anthony</p> <p class="p1">Buzz:…..Sean Arnold</p> <p class="p1">Peggy Sue:….Beth Porter</p> <p class="p1">Yuri:…Andrew Sachs</p> <p class="p1">Control/Dad:….Peter Marinker</p> <p class="p1">In orbital mechanics, orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods. These orbiting bodies can be a planet and its satellite, a star and any object orbiting it, or components of any binary system.</p> <p class="p1">I know this is not technically OTR.  I added it because it was well made.</p>