Hello Ed, While processing your PPAS reports I checked whether the object 01863, OV2-3 rocket, 65-108 A would be visible from our latitudes. Then I saw its inclination was 26.8°. Moreover I saw that this object decayed in 1975 according the RAE tables. Not strange when you see the low perigees the object(s from this launch) had. The data I found in that table are: epoch i Pn peri apo 1965-12-26.1 26.38 589.26 167 33662 (km) 1967-11-20.9 26.45 441.56 165 25568 1969-09-16.0 26.53 289.4 184 16043 Then I checked ALLDAT.TLE and the object is still present there. With program XLATE I get the following orbital data: epoch i Pn peri apo 2004-11-07.2 26.77 393.5 332 22489 (km) So may be RAE-tables are wrong or a exchange of designations took place. Who knows more about this object? Regardless of the designation I suppose it might be visible from our latitudes when it is moving near its northern apex not too close to its perigee. Bram Dorreman Collector PPAS observations > > Here are some PPAS reports from November 6 and 7 UTC: > > 01863, OV2-3 Transtage 3C Rk (plus payload? -- Note to Dan Deak: > this one is a fast flasher.) > 65-108 A 04-11-06 01:59:50 EC 5.4 0.2 8 0.67 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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