I came across another report of 1x observations of what seems to have been LES-8 (08746, 76-023A): http://www.groupsrv.com/science/post-715355.html It can be compared to Brad Young's of a couple of weeks earlier and another that I received privately a couple of days later: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Feb-2005/0269.html Here's some Lockheed-Martin information on LES-8 and LES-9, including an illustration of the spacecraft: http://www.aero.org/publications/martin/martin-8a.html Compare that illustration with this photo (which seems smaller than three-plus meters): http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/les-8.htm Those images do leave one wondering how it could be bright enough to be seen without magnification from geosynchronous range. It and LES-9 were powered by radioactive packages and have no solar panels. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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