maybe its some kind of "repeater antenna" for mil-LEO crosslinks....... Tony Sasha Levin wrote: > Here are some ideas: > 1. Payload got into the parking orbit, shed some debris trying to > confuse the observers and sent a big decoy into a higher orbit while the > satellite itself stayed in the parking orbit > 2. A problem during the transfer from the initial orbit to the higher > orbit made it reach only the parking orbit, the problem was thought to > be solved in 1.6 days, but during the transfer to the higher orbit an > explosion occurred (or something like it...). > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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