This would be the upper stage for Arabsat, which failed to reach its nominal orbit last year - the Briz-M stage probably contained over half its normal prop load, and a seal must have failed. DWA At 05:13 PM 2/20/2007, Dr. Tony Phillips wrote: >The explosion photographed last night by Gordon Garradd and others >in Australia (see http://spaceweather.com for several photos) has >been tentatively identified by Jon P. Boers of the Air Force Space >Surveillance System as object 28944, a Breeze-M rocket body blowing >up. Later, he says, "on the other side of the world, our RADAR saw >500+ pieces in that orbit." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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