Hi Igor The KL-alpha mission involved two satellites placed into distinctly different orbits with a common perigee. One orbit was circular and the other elliptical with apogee 400 km higher. After three months, the elliptical object lowered apogee to match its partner. It used 8-9 days of incremental manoeuvres with daily use of thrusters. https://ww.zarya.info/2019#077 In the 2021-076 case, the descent is continuous and 076B is moving away from the other two objects. The force causing it seems to be acting constantly, hence my musing about a drag device. Cheers Robert Christy > On 30 Aug 2021, at 14:25, Igor Lissov <lissov-i_at_yandex.ru> wrote: > > Bob and the community, > > One more object from this launch is expected to descent to the 1050 km orbit. > They follow the pattern for KL-Alpha pair launched in 2019, now in the 1050 km orbit. > > Igor Lissov > > 30.08.2021, 17:11, "Bob Christy via Seesat-l" <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>: > This is a triplet of objects launched August 24. After about two and a half days in orbit, 2021-076B started to exhibit orbit-changing ability. It is now about 50km below the other two. The change has been continuous rather than incremental as is usual for orbit manoeuvres. > > I have put some notes here > https://www.zarya.info/Diaries/blog/tracks.php?event=China%20Intrigue%20-%202021-076 > > Has anyone observed these and noted anything different about 2021-076B compared with the others? If not, does anyone have current observing opportunities? > > Thanks > > Robert Christy > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Aug 30 2021 - 10:29:55 UTC
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