Hi Allen Many thanks for your note re the above subject and for the first two URL's-- dont have those so will get. Yes the Russians and ESA are doing a fine job of monitoring unpublished geo objects not found in the SPACETRACK lists- the latest report (ESA#10) is what I am currently using to observe the 96*** objects I am currently reporting to SeeSat. In the ESA report they are identified with UI*** numbers so replace the UI*** with 96*** and they are the same objects. Using this report I have been able to identify many of the 90*** objects that appear in Mike McCants CLASSIFIED.TLE with their true identities - a simple task anyone could have done. Hopefully the known 90*** objects will now appear in the so called CLASSIFIED.TLE element set under their true identity. Observed 96*** objects that have no obvious match will appear as 96*** objects in the element sets whilst unidentified 90*** objects will remain as such. I understand Mike is working on implementing the new naming scheme. I should mention that quite a few of the true identities were established by several radio observers and brief mention of this is made in the ESA#10 report. I wonder if the Russian/ESA observers made use of CLASSIFIED.TLE as we were observing several geo objects quite some time before they appeared in the ESA reports :-)) Exciting times... Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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