Ricochet

Reminds me of the original Enterprise's bridge room. Kind of neat, actually.

They're talking about an automated, computer-controlled launch.

The elder Tracy is explaining that a show they are watching on TV is coming from a pirate satellite and hence is illegal. Further, he adds, the satellite is a danger to other satellites that are in controlled orbits.

The station's satellite, on which is the disk jockey and one helper.

A rocket gets ready to launch (and you just know that it's going to collide with the pirate satellite.)

It launches. (The launches are pretty neat, actually).

The rocket has malfunctioned and the second stage has failed to separate. (Um, wouldn't the second stage have burned out, then, and not keep firing?)

The errant rocket is destroyed right in front of the pirate satellite (which the international space station monitors don't know is there since it's a pirate satellite, of course.)

Thunderbird 3 undocking from Thunderbird 5.

One of the station personnel is trapped in an airlock with his air running out; meanwhile the satellite itself is on a reentry slope with no breaking rockets that are workable.

Thunderbird 3 takes off to rescue the satellite.

Thunderbird 2 will join the rescue attempt.

Thunderbird 3 catches up to the satellite.

One guy is rescued but the dj is scared of putting on the spacesuit. Meanwhile, it's been found out that if the satellite reenters the air it will eventually crash into a major oil refinery.

They try to knock the satellite off course so it will crash in the desert and not the refinery.

Thunderbird 2 returns and lands.

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