Re: 96-29 trio deployment

Tristan Cools (tcools@nic.INbe.net)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 14:08:36 +0200 (MET DST)

>
>Observation at 2420 Willowbrae at 00:48 U.T. on June 1 of 96-29A
>showed a second object trailing it by 4.6 seconds. Magnitude at
>good phase estimated at +6.5. This is believed to be the first
>of the deployment of a trio of NOSS satellites, and I am calling it
>96-29C. A second object can be expected shortly, with a gap until
>the third object is deployed, due to need to give a different
>arg of perigee value. It will be interesting to then try to
>determine what happens to the "A" object.
>best wishes  Russell
>

I'm puzzled with one question concerning deployment of the NOSS triad.  Why
does it take so long for that deployment since it manoeuvred into its (more
or less)desired orbit ?  Is it because the A-object had to finetune its
orbit before the deployment of NOSS subsatellites ?

Does anyone has any idea ?(Bjorn, Rainer, Ted, ...)

Greetings,
Tristan Cools
tcools@nic.INbe.net
51.13N  3.16E