"Kurt Jonckheere" <kurtjonckheere@hotmail.com> said: >One of the pictures was very surprising to me, it showed a tumbling >satellite (99- 12 E =3D 25653 =3D A2 Soyuz Ikar third stage) with quite >a few short specular flashes during one tumbling period !! > >You can find the pictures on my home page : > >http://bewoner.dma.be/kjon > >Does anybody has some more info about these type of rocket ? check out - http://www.starsem.com/launcherst_soyuz.html There's a line art of the IKAR stage with some dimensions. Philip Chien, KC4YER Earth News world (in)famous writer, science fiction fan, ham radio operator, all-around nice guy, etc.