NOSS triplet watchers and fans of the somewhat mysterious NOSS-2 A objects (probably SLDCOM satellites, see http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/com/sldcom.htm ) may be interested in the weirdly named "Satellite Living Plume Shield" (LiPS) riders on a couple of NOSS-1 launches (1983-008 and 1987-043): http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/lips.html http://ncst-www.nrl.navy.mil/NCSTOrigin/NCSTOrigin.html http://vast.uah.edu/publications/mag.html http://ncst-www.nrl.navy.mil/NCSTOrigin/TacTerm.GIF It looks to me as if LiPS may have been ancestral to SLDCOM, also as if they may still be active. A quick check of the archives finds TLEs that may be the LiPSes: 1 13792U 83008 B 97326.03456324 .00000017 00000-0 20382-4 0 05 2 13792 63.3900 14.7530 0385270 20.3216 341.1710 13.39472591 05 for the first and 1 17998U 87043 B 97326.58648968 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00 2 17998 63.4070 140.3530 0260639 17.0153 343.8426 13.39312823 00 or possibly (there's a slight divergence of opinion on this) 1 18007U 87043 C 97326.56169407 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 18007 63.4430 134.8140 0278357 5.2479 355.0379 13.40254702 08 for the second. Might be worth looking for them; seen face-on (they're flatish rings), they should be fairly large. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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