It would appear that OrbComm is going the way of Iridium: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/business/orbital_000628.html Comments on decayers Fron Alan Pickup's list at: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/current.htm 17206 86- 19 BJ SPOT 1 r deb June 25.5 It's not often that I lament the decay of a rocket fragment. This little bugger had a habit of appearing in my FOV during the summers of 1997 and 1998. It was a fairly bright flasher and was always interesting to observe. 23549 95- 18 A Ofeq 3 October At a 143.4 deg inclination, this Israeli surveillance satellite moves across the sky in the opposite direction as almost all equatorially launched objects. It's a binocular object generally in the 5.5-6.5 Mag range. Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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