>Has a rotation rate been determined for Milstar 3? not that I'm aware of. I usually see it fairly steady over a 20+ min pass although I was not looking for variations, but I think I'd notice +3. GRR should have the video at 11 (10 central :) once it flared iridium quality -8, for ~ 30 sec --I could make out pattern of the solar panels at nnnn km. that report should be buried in seesat archives somewhere. its rocket has a fairly regular flash pattern. At 06:15 9/6/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> I happened to see an extra first magnitude star in Oph; it >> was at about 17:15, -9 or -10. "Mike, that's not a star, >> is it? There's not supposed to be a bright star there, >> right?" It was moving quite slowly. It was Milstar 3 >> (99-023A, 25724). It stayed brighter than +3 for at least >> a minute if not two. > >Has a rotation rate been determined for Milstar 3? > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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