Re[2]: Orbit and identity changes
Rosenberg.Eric (rosenberg.eric@Orbcomm.COM)
Mon, 06 Oct 97 09:27:14 -0500
Sorry for the lack of a reply. I suspect you saw it. The satellit =
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operating and appears to be stable.=20
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There were two payloads...FAISAT was attached to the top of a=20
Parus-class naviagation satellite.
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Subject: Re: Orbit and identity changes
Author: <SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de> at internet
Date: 06-10-97 10:38 AM
P>An earlier report mentioned that Faisat was steady, so I didn't bothe=
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report Saturday's steady pass. Perhaps Faisat was tumbling after all, =
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myself and others were looking at the wrong object. I'll try to look a=
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again tonight.
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I have a really early observation of two objects related to the Faisat =
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however, I don't know which they are and whether Faisat and rocket body=
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already seperated at that time (Faisat was a piggyback payload, wasn't =
it?):
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>were on the same orbit parallel to a line through SAO #8220 and SAO #8=
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seperated by about 3s. The first one was brighter than the second one, =
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flashing with roughly a 5s period, maxima at roughly 1m5 (brighter than=
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Polaris). The track on the sky fit nicely with the prediction from the =
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above.
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>Position was RA 15h17m, Decl. 71d50'.
>Times: 18:28:10 UTC and 18:28:13 UTC according to my clock, which ... =
=2E... was off up to 7 seconds at that time.
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Using elsets, I identified the "first one" as 97 52C, and "the second o=
ne" as 97
52A.
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I reported this to Eric Rosenberg but never got any reply. BTW, was thi=
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first observation of Faisat or not?
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Hej d=E5, Marco
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