I am not sure this is correct. The Iridium antennaes are more vertical than earth facing and we see reflections from other satellites like Superbird-A. Ron >Alexander, >The flares from the Iridium satellites are produced by reflections off their >main, earth-pointing, antennas (MMAs), instead of their solar panels. >Typically, solar panels face the sun, and hence do not reflect sunlight >toward earth. > > Ralph McConahy ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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