Re: Pegasus/SWAS Launch

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I thought it was interesting how Dave Ransom saw the Pegasus/SWAS launch.
He is the creator of the tracking program STS Plus ( http://www.dransom.com/).
I'm posting his report with his permission.

-- Jake Rees
   Burbank, California

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NEWS AND COMMENT by Dave Ransom

mailto: rans7500@spacelink.nasa.gov

[Reposted from the RPV Astronomy BBS @ (520) 282-5559]

05 DEC 98  By sheer coincidence, my wife Vicki was looking to
           the West just before 18:00 MST (01:00 UTC) and saw
           what she thought was a meteor and yelled for me to
           come. I took one look and told her it was the Pegasus
           launch of the small NASA SWAS satellite off the central
           California coast from Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft.
           It was a spectacular sight! And remarkable that we could
           see it from Sedona in the wilds of Northern Arizona!
           (I earned many points by correctly identifying the
           launch ... subsequently confirmed.)

           SWAS = Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

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