Re: OTV-5, Did It Deploy Sub-satellites? And A New Site Is Almost Ready To Track

From: C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 23:12:32 +0100
Hi Brian,

They were a on a rideshare and the Centaur upperstage delivered the
cubesats in a wholly different orbit.

Regards,
    Cees

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 23:05, Brian Weeden via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
wrote:

> Charles, are you saying the OTV-4 itself deployed 10 smallsats? I thought
> that they were rideshares on the overall launch but deployed from the upper
> stage, not the X-37B itself.
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 16:32 Charles Phillips via Seesat-l <
> seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
>
> > All -
> >
> > Has everyone seen the questions about OTV-5 and possible sub-satellites?
> > We did have a couple of messages here earlier but there has
> > been more discussion in other forums.
> >
> > Now OTV-4 did deploy 10 small satellites - I don't see that we were ever
> > able to track any of them. Did I miss anything?
> >
> > Did anyone see any small objects near OTV-5? So far the satellite catalog
> > has no additional objects from 2019-052, you would
> > think that the Air Force would catalog them so that the operators could
> > track them and communicate with them.
> >
> > In other news - the Clear Lake City. Texas observatory is back up now
> that
> > cool weather has arrived. I am taking observations
> > with a used Nikon D200 camera and lens but am waiting for a cable to
> > arrive. The cable will connect my GPS device to the camera
> > so I can get accurate time on my observations; as soon as the cable
> > arrives I hope to be finally submitting observations. I can
> > clearly see OFEQ 9 and 10, USA 281, and similar low orbiting satellites
> > but the time is not accurate enough. I am hoping to be able
> > to track some semi-synch objects as well. I am going to be up in Colorado
> > Springs in the first week of November (visiting some
> > Space Command people) and hope to have a chance to get out and take some
> > observations while I am there.
> >
> >
> > Charles Phillips
> > Spaceflight Research, LLC
> > Houston, Texas
> > 713-882-4578
> > sites.google.com/site/spaceflightresearchprojects/
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