Dr. Tony Phillips posted: > 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." Wow! That is the upper stage that shut down prematurely, stranding the Arabsat 4A (06006A / 28943) communications satellite in a 51.5 deg, 507 X 14701 km orbit. Must have retained a large fraction of its propellant load. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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