Re: formation flying Tiangong 2 16-57A/41765 with ?

Spacetrack TLE for 'SHENZHOU-11 MODULE' has epoch date of 17097.79374019 
for object 41868, 16-016G as I noted.  I made no claims it was anything 
but that listed in Spacetrack database and this object is placed as the 
observer reported.  Check for yourself.

s


On 4/8/2017 2:13 PM, Erkenswick, Tom M. (JSC-CM341) via Seesat-l wrote:
> Shenzhou-11 undocked and landed back in November 2016, so it's not that.
>
> I see no words in the English-language Chinese press to indicate that Tianzhou-1 was launched.  And the Chinese have been pretty non-secretive with their human spaceflight launches and events for several years, including live launch feeds.
>
> Maybe it's the Banxing-2 microsat that they released in October while Shenzhou-11 was docked, the one that took images of the Tiangong+Shenzhou stack?
>
> Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seesat-l [mailto:seesat-l-bounces+tom.m.erkenswick=nasa.gov_at_satobs.org] On Behalf Of Scott Tilley via Seesat-l
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> Subject: Re: formation flying Tiangong 2 16-57A/41765 with ?
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> This would be Shenzhou-11 Module, 41868, 16-016G. Object is shows up in today's spacetrack data.
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> s
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> On 4/8/2017 12:53 PM, Tristan Cools via Seesat-l wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Only the second time I observed the Chinese Space station as I get
>> only low passes here over Belgium, but what a surprise;  another
>> object was flying synchronous some 2deg SE of it.  Brightness about
>> mag +1 and the other object maybe +3.  Observation time 19:36UTC.
>>
>> Can somebody confirm this or is there any news ?
>>
>> I took some pictures of it, but with allmost full moon I would be
>> surprised if I could catch the two objects.
>>
>> gr, tristan cools
>> Belgian Working Group Satellites/BWGS
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