OT Re: Upcoming Florida launch Nav Warn

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 22:50:14 +0200
Op 9-5-2019 om 16:01 schreef Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l:
> Op 8-5-2019 om 08:07 schreef satcom ops via Seesat-l:
>> Falcon 9 ?
>>
>> Includes splash zone...
>> Graphic.....extracted from live satellite data [ AOR-E ] using Scytale-C
> 
> I think this is some ICBM or SLBM test, as there seems to be a splashdown zone
> in front of the African coast some 11000 km away.
> 
> The hazard zone near the Florida coast is somewhat off for a CCAF launch, so
> perhaps a Trident SLBM from a submarine.


Getting OT as it was not a Space launch but: I called it right, turns out it
indeed was a Trident-II D5 SLBM test, reportedly launched from the USS Rhode
Island submarine. Launch about 65 km out of the Florida coast, missile flight
distance 10 700 km, total flight time must have been near 34 minutes.

- Marco


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