Re: Titan IV-Centaur launch

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Tony Beresford wrote:
> 
> Fellow sesaters,
> Just been talking to an observer in near Sydney who saw
> something that looks suspiciuosly like the Centaur stage
> doing a geo transfer orbit burn and fuel dump manouver.

Anybody able to "guestimate" even a rough orbit for this Centaur based
on launch time & this single obs?

There was a post on the sci.astro.satellites.visual.observe newsgroup by
Allen Thompson that points to a web page with an image of a previous
Titan Centaur fuel dump (USA 103 rocket) & the story surrounding this
observation;

http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/track/seesat.htm

Best wishes,

 
Jason P Hatton
INSERM U311
ETS Strasbourg
67065 Strasbourg Cedex
France

48.538N / 7.731E / 143m

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