re: satwk29 report from OIG

Philip Chien (kc4yer@amsat.org)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:36:27 -0400

Mike McCants <mikem@freeside.fc.net> posted -

>                 Satellite Catalog Action Report
>
>
>From: 1999/07/10
>Through: 1999/07/17
>
>The following objects have been reported as cataloged:
>
>Internatnl
>Designator   CatNo Common Name               Source LaunchDate
>------------ ----- ------------------------- ------ ----------

<snip>

>1999-039A    25860 OKEAN-O                   CIS    1999/07/17
>1999-039B    25861 SL-16 R/B                 CIS    1999/07/17

son of a gun.  A Zenit actually worked.  ;-)

Obviously this is a standard SL-16 Zenit-2 upper stage, not the Block DM
third stage used with SeaLaunch which was the topic of discussion a while
back.

So it will look like a typical Zenit-2 which actually makes it to orbit
(which is not exactly so assured) - OBJ SeeSat comment.




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