The Globalstar sky train
Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:06:46 -0400
Hi everybody,
Having previously observed the Soyuz rocket, I observed an hour ago
the 5 other objects from the Globalstar launch. They were all visible in
the same field of view of my 20x80 binocs (around 3.5 deg) at mag 5
and steady. Assuming the first object was at T=0, no.2 was at T+0.6s,
no.3 at T+3.0s, no.4 at T+7.9s and no.5 at T+8.6s.
Using the latest OIG elsets that follow, I could not positively identify
which is which. According to my analysis, the first one looks like the
Ikar upper stage and the last, the Globalstar B.
GLOBALSTAR A
1 25943U 99058A 99291.76152677 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 12
2 25943 51.9678 240.1749 0038734 196.2380 162.2773 13.91694141 09
GLOBALSTAR B
1 25944U 99058B 99291.76152677 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 13
2 25944 51.9607 240.1629 0035629 196.5323 162.0287 13.91052039 01
GLOBALSTAR C
1 25945U 99058C 99291.76152677 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 14
2 25945 51.9633 240.1643 0037125 196.2602 162.3547 13.91729973 07
GLOBALSTAR D
1 25946U 99058D 99291.76152677 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 15
2 25946 51.9668 240.1843 0038680 198.9293 159.6935 13.91931563 00
SOYUZ R/B (1)
1 25947U 99058E 99291.75533631 -.00002952 93319-5 00000+0 0 13
2 25947 51.9663 240.1837 0474694 79.1489 282.8019 15.00592929 31
SOYUZ R/B (2)
1 25948U 99058F 99291.76152677 -.00000148 00000-0 00000+0 0 17
2 25948 51.9679 240.1801 0038209 197.4287 161.1587 13.91801327 18
It was a very nice sight and the first time I can follow 5 objects in the same field of view.
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Daniel Deak
St-Bonaventure, Québec
COSPAR site 1745 : 45.9483°N, 72.6539°W, 58 m., UTC-4:00
E-mail : dan.deak@sympatico.ca
Site en francais sur les satellites:
French-language satellite web site : http://www3.sympatico.ca/dan.deak/
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