Re: BY F 040916

From: Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:58:53 -0400
06921 is the main fragment of the rocket stage Delta 98, which launched
NOAA 3 in 1973.
Delta 98 blew up a month after launch, but TLEs continue to be issued for
the catalog number so presumably
there was a substantial piece of it still intact.
- Jonathan

On 11 April 2016 at 12:03, wkitty42--- via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
wrote:

> On 04/11/2016 11:05 AM, Young, Brad via Seesat-l wrote:
>
>> This sat always showed up as "exploded" on Heavens-Above, but after
>> ignoring it many years, I looked and its quite there.
>>
>> FPAS12,06921,R8336A,20160409,100511,1s,-,36.1,-95.9,201,SUBG,-,k,12s,7,k,G1CkNNN,N,-,-,-,-,-,-,-;
>>
>
> it is listed that way in the satcat.txt from planet4589, too... possibly
> it is mentioned in one of the archival JSR reports available from there,
> too?
>
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