This is Shi-Jian 11-03 (SJ 11-03 launched on a CZ-2C launcher from Jiuquan SLS Left. The B-object is the 2nd stage. Greetings Leo Barhorst -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Bram Dorreman Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:08 PM To: Seesat List ; marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl Subject: 2010-030B (37731,name not yet known to me) is a nice variable satellite I saw the new TLE on SpaceTrack and predicted it and its associated A-object, very likely the payload. Nice transits had been predicted for my location. Fortunately the clouds cooperated and were not present at those parts of the sky where the newly launched objects might be visible. When I picked up the B-object I was thinking of a CZ-rocket, like 2009-021B. It had a flash period easy to follow. When rising the amplitude decreased. After the culmination point the amplitude increased. Here is the PPAS-report. yy-nnncc yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.s ooo sss.s s.s nnn ff.fff comments 11- 30 B 11-07-06 22:07:33.2 BD 243.6 0.1 28 8.70 A; +2.1->inv PPAS-records, for format see http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat I could not find a name for the object and its payload. I assume it is a Yaogan. Later I found out it was launched that very same day. It was just like 2009-021B which I saw first on its launch date. I compared the two (assumed) payloads (09021A and 11030A) and the (assumed) rockets: their orbits are not complete similar. The recent satellites are about 200 km higher. After I saw the steady A-object, magnitude +5.1 at brightest, more clouds came in and I was not able to find any suitable tracking satellites from our classified object lists. Bram Dorreman Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E, 35 m (WGS84) _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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