It was STSS Demonstrator rather than STSS ATRR that did the tracking. The Northrop Grumman press release is here: http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=201475 . It doesn't say which of the two satellites did the work. The STSS Demo pair has already demonstrated missile tracking at ranges of several hundreds of kilometres under similar circumstances to the reported tracking of the satellite: http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/STSSDemo/STSSDemoMissileTests.php . I guess the two events (missile and satellite) are similar in terms of the 'coldness' of the target. Bob Christy =============================== Igor Lissov wrote: From the text I presume that STSS-ATRR did the obs on July 19. I have a hobbyists' elset for STSS-ATRR for August 13, and this one does show flybys within 100 km from NOAA-9 (15427) and NOAA-15 (25388). Did anybody do a more detailed analysis with an elset with a closer epoch? _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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