This object is microsatellite Kolibri (AKA Kolibri-2000), ejected from canister, attached to the Progress.docking system before departure from ISS. Assembled under direction of Institute of Space Reasearch (=Institut kosmicheskikh issledovanii), Russia Academy of Science. This satellite will be used by Russian and Australian high school students. It measures magnetic fields in LEO (?). Gravity gradient stabilization. Expected lifetime 4 - 6 months. Edward S Light wrote: > OIG is giving elements for an "unknown" objects 27394 = 01-051C. This > is apparently a new component of the just-decayed Progress M1-7; does > anyone on the list have any details? Is it a miniscule piece of debris? > > Thanks. > > Clear and dark skies! > Ed Light > Lakewood, NJ, USA > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Antonin Vitek Office: Main Library - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-115 22 Praha 1, Czech Republic Phone: +420(2)21 40 32 55 **** Note change in phone no. **** Fax: +420(2)24 24 05 26 E-mail:AVITEK@LIB.CAS.CZ My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/knav/space.40/index.html Home: Kytin 127, CZ-525 10 p. Mnisek p.B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 Coordinates: 14.2193 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL ----------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Mar 20 2002 - 08:57:23 EST