Ted: According to the Boeing site: http://www.boeing.com/ids/advanced_systems/orbital/updates.html NextSat should still be within a few meters of OE (unless the web site is far behind actual events, there was to have been a series of separations to a few meters, re-captures, etc., with separation out to 7 km being the Grand Finale). Maybe the mission is farther along than the web site indicates, though. DWA At 09:59 PM 5/13/2007, Ted Molczan wrote: >30772 07 006A 2701 G 20070514022330100 17 25 0805997+272927 77 S >30772 07 006A 2701 G 20070514040240150 17 25 0854337+415178 28 S > >IOD format: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html > >Site 2701: 43.68764 N, 79.39243 W, 230 m > >I saw 07006A on two consecutive passes. 07006C / 30774 was visible >on the first >pass, but too faint on the second pass. > >I have revised my estimate of the angular distance by which 07006C trailed >07006A on the first pass, to about 0.4 deg. This was at range near 600 km; >therefore, separation was about 4 km. > >07006A was at least 2 mag brighter than 07006C, and orange-red coloured. > >I looked for 07631A / 91117 from 02:53 to 03:12 UTC using the following >elements, but did not see it: > >1 91117U 07631A 07132.53574934 .00000587 00000-0 12695-1 0 06 >2 91117 50.8982 161.6114 4883067 244.9397 57.5096 5.07303856 06 > >It was predicted to be about magnitude 8.3. I could see stars at least 1 mag >fainter. > >Ted Molczan > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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