subject: Okean 01-7 hig res OBS >Aug 24 2010 http://tinyurl.com/2d3zaea I was quite surprised by the appearance of this spacecraft when I first saw the frames; a widely resolved body with 2 bright ends and a fainter mid-part, The object (here in a 85° W culm pass, so imaged near to closest distance) appears considerably large for a distance over 600km. For an approximate comparison; ERS-2, which I captured with the same imaging- scale a few minutes later, appeared not much bigger then one of the 2 brighter ends in the Okean image. Another surprise was found during research when I found that the Okean satellite is one of the few objects with no Wikipedia article involved yet...There is still sufficient information available on the specialized sites but I'm still searching for information about dimensions of this spacecraft. Mass of the satellites should be 1,950 kg (4,290 lb). The later types were the Sich. The captured Okean 7 is launched in 1994. Best regards, Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100826/d16b8686/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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