subject: Sapwood Block-E upper stage of Cosmos 1005_HR-OBS On August 21, there was a fine opportunity to capture a low orbital pass of an almost legendary heavy used type of upper stages, used for the modified SS-6 Sapwood or R-7 rocket, originally a Intercontinental ballistic missile. telescopic image: http://tinyurl.com/2w5hl9g It is a small object, but the observations show some clear similarities, especially in the first pair of images. The Block-E upper stage was the same as used for the first (unmanned) missions to the Moon with the Luna Programme: http://tinyurl.com/2ulado2 This is a nice comparison of the Block-E with a person: http://tinyurl.com/3yab5tb _________________ Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100824/2801ebcb/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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