Hi James, > Sorry folks - in my haste I omitted some detail! And I meant Globalstar 59. 10-4. I agree with the match. Nothing else is reasonable based on the time of the observation. The Globalstar satellites have a number of flat surfaces that could produce glints (besides the solar arrays, which under ordinary operating circumstances could not). I'm still trying to locate a good image of a satellite. The best I've found so far is a simple diagram: <http://www.space-technology.com/projects/globalstar/globalstar2.html> and this rather poor artist's image in a PDF file: <http://www.ssloral.com/products/gblstar.pdf> From what I've read, satellite orientation is not nearly as critical for the Globalstars, since these satellites do not have satellite-to- satellite crosslinks like Iridium. Thus, glint prediction software for these satellites (if ever written) would never be as accurate as for Iridium. Best, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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