Report time 12:25 UTC 2003-039B (#27874) Soyuz 3.Stage (PROGRESS RB) Since 30 August, 22:36 UTC, we have not seen any messages from OIG, the "usual" weekend break .... But Firat Barlas informed me about his observation from Uludag-Bursa (Turkey) 40°08' N, 29°08.5°E : "...we saw a bright flare on nearly same trajectory following ISS and Progress cargo ship. It broke into dozens of pieces 20 degrees over NE horizon (05:14 Local time, GMT +3). We thought that is was the predicted Progress reentry." Firat was absolutely right. Based on the preliminary "last" released ELSET 03242.782... (SFX 114, ap 012) MPM+REENTRY showed the decay on 31 August, 02:20 UTC +/- 11 minutes (46.07°N, 43.77°E) ascending over South Russia (10 km Geodetic Altitude). For Firats observation I found with this ELSET an altitude of about 95 km. This is - I believe - around 20 km too high. But time and travel direction are exactly on track. A final analysis will follow after release of SCC'S last message and ELSETs... Harro Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de Berlin, Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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