Daniel Deak wrote: > Looks like the orbital module has the catalog number 33392 (object G). That object may be the sub-satellite that reportedly was to have been deployed; it appeared too soon to have been the orbital module. Its orbit appears to be a bit higher than that of Shenzhou; I am waiting for the values of its elements to settle down, before attempting any analysis to determine when/where and how fast it separated. > Four debris objects have been associated with this launch. > Debris C and D are about at the rocket stage orbit and > debris E and F are near the Shenzhou 7 orbit. All four are separation motor covers, shed by the rocket during spacecraft separation, about 10 min after launch. Their initial perigee was near 202 km; apogee more than 500 km. Typically they decay with a few days of launch. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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