SAOCOM 1B deorbit burn

From: Floyd Weaver via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:03:10 -0400
I have not posted here for a long time but am now as I think I just got to
see the deorbit burn or fuel depletion for the rocket that launched
SAOCOM1B. I was not looking for it but was sitting on my front porch here in
Lebanon PA USA and in the NNW I saw this light about like a airplane landing
lights but an unusual area of lighted cloud around it. Soon the "headlight"
went out but the cloud continued. It was only about 10 degrees above the
horizon. It moved into the west were it basically became invisible. It
appeared to be a retrograde orbit. I thought of a deorbit burn but that did
not hold out as I did not know how one would occur there. I checked things
out and find out that this was the first sun synchronous launch from FL in
decades. So I think that is what I saw and hope to see more! I attached a
photo I got though it is not very good but it still gives you an idea what I
saw. The lower right is where the rocket burn occurred but higher and left
was more "cloud" that was moving along with it.

 

Floyd Weaver

 

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