I believe it is similar in design and mission to the EORSATs with MM=15.52, that have been operating in pairs or triplets for many years (1-2 years/satellite). Instead of being deorbited at the end of the useful lifetime, it ended up in a higher orbit. They were described as '6.0 0.0 0.0' ,i.e. spheres, in TLEs, and I have seen a fair number of passes, always at +1 - +2 at short range. However, images indicate a cylindrical shape. 1996-069A 24670 COSMOS 2335 Launched 12/11/1996 was lowered, and decayed 01/01/1999; 1997-079A 25088 COSMOS 2347 exploded in orbit 12/12/1999; see http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/eorsat.htm and http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Dec-2000/0378.html According to Phillip Clark COSMOS 2347 was the final of the series. http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Dec-1999/0098.html , but Cosmos 2367 has the same kind of orbit with a groundtrack repeat in three days -55 minutes. Cosmos 2367 8.0 3.0 0.0 3.5 d 23 417 x 405 km 1 26040U 99072A 01137.09915193 .00018708 00000-0 31253-3 0 3645 2 26040 65.0081 332.5935 0009071 263.4457 206.9861 15.51976333 78800 Cosmos 1220 6.0 0.0 0.0 4.9 v 20 692 x 501 km 1 12054U 80089A 01137.23279044 .00003426 00000-0 30798-3 0 3573 2 12054 64.9907 12.9787 0136472 270.7346 87.8131 14.90511304 21318 -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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