One or more small self-contained reentry breakup recorders are disposed within
a spacecraft and each includes a sensor suite for collecting and recording collected
and recorded sensory data during reentry breakup of the spacecraft, and includes
a communications system for broadcasting the collected and recorded sensory data
after breakup and before impact with the surface of the earth to a remote communication
system for preserving the sensory data of the breakup as well as data relating
to critical events occurring prior to breakup. An internal GPS receiver provides
sensory positional data of the reentry and breakup positions.
