Hi Guys I have been mostly a lurker for a few months. However, I have a historical question for the old timers. I was involved with the integration of the first Minotaur launch back in January 2000. This included JAWSAT, OCS, ASUSAT, FALCONSAT, and OPAL. For those interesetd, current keps can be obtained at www.xmission.com/~kohlwey for all but OCS, which has already decayed. My question is two parts. First of all, did anyone with a telescope happen to observe any or all of these objects on orbit. Yes, I realize that this would be difficult and unlikely because of the size of the satellites. Second, does anyone have information on what the physical characteristics of the object known as Minotaur Debris (26079U) would be? We are trying to finalize some failure analysis, and any help from this end would be appreciated. Also, these objects are moving back into twilight orbit in the March/April timeframe, so if you want to take a look, let me know and I will see what support technical I can get to you. BTW OCS was a great project. It really was easy to observe, but considering that it was a like a ten foot diameter mylar balloon, it is no wonder. (decayed alittle over a year after launch). We would love to put some more of these up for the Air Force, but their budget is a real mess right now, as you can imagine. Thanks for all the help Lloyd Thomson Sr. Design Engineer One Stop Satellite Solutions Inc. 1805 University Cir. Ogden, UT 84408-1805 www.osss.com lloyd.thomson@osss.com or thomson@aros.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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