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Surface-draped fiber captured plane's flight details at Nevada airfield

Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across the ground at a Nevada airfield also captured unique aspects of a Cessna 172's speed and maneuvering.

Surface-draped fiber captured plane's flight details at Nevada airfield
Image: Phys.org
Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across the ground at a Nevada airfield also captured unique aspects of a Cessna 172's speed and maneuvering.

Originally published at Phys.org

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