FIA Radar 2 might have manoeuvered

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:53:18 +0200
Hi all,

Last night Daniel Fisher in Germany (51.4 N 7.2 E) observed a flaring/flashing 
object in UMA at 22:26 UT (Jul 17). This is his scetch of the trajectory:

https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/622378876598120449

This trajectory is only possible with a retrograde orbit, of which there are not 
many. A check against all JSpOC and our classified orbits did not yield a candidate.

However, based on 4-day old elements 15195.92799017, FIA Radar 2 (38109, 
12-014A) should have passed along a very similar trajectory near 22:14 UT, so 12 
minutes earlier.

If this was FIA R2, then it must have manoeuvered in the past 4 days. Obs by Leo 
Barhorst from July 14:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jul-2015/0065.html

... show it was still on time at that moment.

- Marco


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