> >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