Hi everybody, What a hectic day for me. Been very busy at work and had to be at our school's open house 15 minutes after the Delta depletion burn occured. With all I had to do before this obs, I was putting my eyes into my binocs only 8 seconds before the start of the burn. Being right underneath treated us to a very spectacular sight quite different from what I saw last August. The rocket stage reached mag +1 or 0 at the start of the second part of the maneuver. The four Globalstar were easily seen naked eye. I think there definitely is a fuel dump after the burn as Ron Lee told us and contrary to what Boeing told me. Maybe they are hiding something, technology transfer issues as thay say ? The rocket clearly followed a different trajectory than the 4 satellites. A complete report will follow tomorrow (for me) and I will make drawings of what I saw. -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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