Ted Molczan wrote: <Snipola> Anyone have any other ideas? Ted Molczan I know little of the history and technical aspects of NOSS launches so I may be barking up the wrong tree but... Have previous NOSS launches exhibited similar behaviours? Perhaps an analysis of archived NOSS TLE's might show something? Could the previous launch where only 2 birds appeared have had a third bird that was missed? With all the focus on the two birds that did appear could a third have been secretly deployed unnoticed since all eyes were on the other two? Is there historical precedent for such an event? Obviously the third bird would have to NOT be part of the usual NOSS formation or it would have been seen eventually. Admitedly far fetched but since I know little about these things and am unable to check for myself I thought it best to throw out to the experts. Brian ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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