Op 1-2-2026 om 18:56 schreef Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l: > I so far have trouble getting results with breakup during or just before the > 12:39 UTC first TIP. It requires significant masses separating well before the > TIP time, and then the modelled reentry of the R/B no longer fits well with the > TIP. But within error margins of the modelling it might perhaps still be possible. > Assuming a solid steel sphere, a 7.9 kg (12.4 cm diameter) object separating > from the R/B at the previous perigee around 11:24 UTC at an altitude of about > 109.5 km, does indeed survive the next perigee where the R/B reenters at 12:39 > UTC (first TIP), and reenters around 13:43 UTC near 5 S, 62 E, values close to > the second TIP. Facetious added note, inspired by the frivolities of certain US CEO's: I am suddenly having hilarious visions of the dummy payload being a solid steel bobble-head statue of the Chinese LandSpace CEO, with the head coming off.... - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org launchtower: http://launchtower.langbroek.org Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list https://lists.seesatmail.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Feb 02 2026 - 06:02:27 UTC
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