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

Shenhzou 11 landed, but unlike for Soyuz the orbital module is jettisoned
before retrofire and remains in orbit.
So it is that.

On 8 April 2017 at 17:13, Erkenswick, Tom M. (JSC-CM341) via Seesat-l <
seesat-l_at_satobs.org> 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
>
>
>
> -----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
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2017 3:26 PM
> To: seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> Subject: Re: formation flying Tiangong 2 16-57A/41765 with ?
>
> This would be Shenzhou-11 Module, 41868, 16-016G. Object is shows up in
> today's spacetrack data.
>
> s
>
>
> 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
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