At 14:07 27/04/00 , Mark Jeffrey wrote: >I believe I made a sighting of the Russian Progress supply vehicle >en-route to MIR last evening ( Wed April 26 09:02 UTC ) over >Australia. But to my surprise what I saw was flashing. Looked very >much like an aircraft strobe. Was travelling very quickly as expected >with the lower orbit. > >Just hoping someone may confirm this as PROGRESS or did I >see something else ? No Mark you saw something else, the upper stage of the rocket that launched the Progress. The progress was about 5 minutes later. Here are the predictions for geelong, using elements of epoch time close to your observation . Rendevous with MIR seems delayed as the OIG elements for the progress epoch 118.18( April 27) still show a 16.104 mean motion. Tony Beresford Adelaide So. Australia u.t. Alt az R.A. Dec Range(kms) station Geelong Date 0 426 satellite PROGRESS 9 6.7 16.0 283.2 4 25.3 .2 790. 9 7.2 18.6 299.8 5 16.5 10.1 713. 9 7.7 19.1 319.0 6 17.2 21.2 698. 9 8.2 17.3 337.1 7 21.7 30.8 751. 9 8.7 14.1 351.3 8 22.4 37.3 858. station Geelong Date 0 426 satellite PROG Rocket 9 .1 10.6 265.0 3 17.6-10.4 874. 9 .6 14.2 276.9 3 58.3 -3.4 727. 9 1.1 17.5 294.3 4 52.5 7.1 625. 9 1.6 18.8 316.3 6 1.4 20.0 592. 9 2.1 16.9 337.8 7 18.3 31.3 638. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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