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/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seesat-l mailing list > > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Oct 28 2019 - 17:13:18 UTC
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