Kevin asked: >Has anyone seen the newest milstar that was going to be at 90 >degrees west, accordeing to spaceflight now. I wonder how bright >it is? Rick Baldridge and Mike McCants (and I via Mike's telescope) have seen an unknown geosat (90009, 01-572A) that according to Ted Molczan's Geolong program is in a slightly inclined (2.7 degrees) orbit at 100.9 west, very near the longitutde of DirecTV 3 or DBS 3 (23598, 95-029A). My recollection is that it was never as bright as DBS 2 and 3, even during "flaring geosat" season, so maybe it's about +12 to +13 usually (?). See the March 2001 SeeSat-L archives under the subject "Unidentified Geosat": http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Mar-2001/subject.html Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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