> it looks as if 23563 started out as one thing Yes, I assume this was just a ghost of a GPS satellite... > reappeared as something else over two years later This is the object I am wondering about. It is plausibly a debris piece from a GPS PAM-D, but not the one it claims to belong to. 1 23563U 97314.86942264 .00180104 50383-7 69742-3 16 2 23563 37.5881 248.5526 2905537 214.6331 123.2931 9.76865788 36303 By the way, USSC just cataloged new pieces from several GPS PAM-D stages. The fact that one piece is being cataloged from each stage suggests this is some type of operational debris that was previously too small to track. Perhaps the yo-yo despin wires from the PAM-D? But why only from the GPS launches? - Jonathan ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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