96-29 trio deployment

Russell Eberst (R.Eberst@roe.ac.uk)
Sat, 1 Jun 1996 09:57:06 +0100 (BST)

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