It is not because of geo sat flare season - this applies to active, stabilized geostationaries that have their solar panel normals pointing near the Sun, but in the equatorial plane. ETS-6 is spinning out of control, but I managed to find its orientation from observations in 1999 and 2000. My old data seem to fit with a few new observations, but this is more than expected. I will analyze this to see if I can make the model agree with this observation. When a spinning satellite with solar panels is passing anywhere on the track of the flash cone, its flashes can even be 1-power at distances like ETS-6 apogee! The flash episodes are short duration if the satellite crosses the flash track at large angles, longer if they are nearly parallell. Please report times (and/or positions) of unusually bright flashes! -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- > I get that ETS 6 was in the area at the time. Though looking at the ppas, > the flashes were last reported to be faint, you would need a scope to see > them. Maybe because its geo sat flare season, then the flashes are brighter > then normal. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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