marcus (saguaro@lombardiacom.it) wrote: > a simple question from a newbye: > > why Molniya flashes? They have solar panels and are tumbling and thus when the satellite's orientation as well as the Sun-object-observer angle are both favorable bright specular flashes can be observed. Some useful details are available on this site: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/1668/molniya.htm Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/satellite.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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