RE: TiPS tether visibility at 200 km

From: Matson, Robert (ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 20:36:56 PDT

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Hi Dave,

> I asked pretty much the same question on 16 Oct. '98. How could the 
> 2.4 to 2.6 mm tether could be seen at 200 km without magnification? My 
> answer covered about fifteen or so posts, but none were satisfatory.

If you dig back a little further -- to March of '96 when
TSS was flying -- Rob McNaught explained the optical phenomenon
in:

http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Mar-1996/0185.html

(with a minor correction in a later post).  I also posted a
detailed magnitude calculation on tether brightness, but can't
seem to find it -- it may have been for an even earlier tether
than TSS.  SEDS?  Anyway, simple solar reflection is all
that is required to produce the observed signature.  --Rob


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