Thursday, 26 October 2006

Update on Progress-M58

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The Progress-M58 cargo spacecraft which I imaged with my tracking camera Tuesday evening appears to be in trouble. Sensors suggest somet...
Tuesday, 24 October 2006

Progress-M58 observed

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The Progress-M58 cargo ship ( 06-045A , #29503; NASA for odd reasons foolishly and confusingly calls it "Progress 23") was launch...
Tuesday, 17 October 2006

Clear skies

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The sky over SatTrackCam Leiden was very clear yesterday evening. Alas, there were little good satellite passes. The only target captured w...
Sunday, 15 October 2006

Hazy, Lacrosse 4 and Murphy

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It cleared enough during the afternoon to make some tracking possible this evening. Yet conditions were far from good: much haze in the sky....
Saturday, 14 October 2006

Warning about the orbit constellation plots

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Hmmm, having played a bit more with it, it is clear that WinOrsa does not quite plot artificial earth satellites at the correct geographic ...
Thursday, 12 October 2006

Spysat orbital constellation plot: NOSS

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Orbital constellation of the Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) satellites, duo's and trio's of satellites for tracking ocean sh...
Wednesday, 11 October 2006

Coincidence, or clever Korean timing?

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Coincidence, or clever timing by the North Koreans? When North Korea conducted its alledged atomic bomb test last Monday at 01:36 UTC, it al...
Tuesday, 10 October 2006

Some spysat orbital constellation plots (KH-12 Keyhole, Lacrosse and IGS)

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Plots of the orbit constellations of the American KH-12 Keyhole optical imaging satellites and Lacrosse (Onyx) synthetic aperture radar s...

Picture fom last weekend

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One of the pictures from last weekend, showing the trail of Lacrosse 5rk (05-016B, #28647), the still orbiting rocket stage of the Lacrosse...
Sunday, 8 October 2006

Unexpected clear sky: Lacrosse 3 & Lacrosse 5rk

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It rather unexpectedly cleared in the evening. Good transparent sky. A first pass (18:34 UTC) of Lacrosse 3 (97-064A, #25017) was captured ...

Quite a lot....

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Below are two plots I constructed showing the orbits of all 170 amateur tracked classified objects (operational and defunct satellites and ...
Wednesday, 4 October 2006

Bad luck

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I was having bad luck this evening, quite some bad luck... First, cloud cover prevented me from imaging the early passes of Lacrosse 2 ...
Saturday, 30 September 2006

Lacrosse 3 & Lacrosse 5rk cruising up together

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This evening I caught Lacrosse 3 (97-064A, #25017) and Lacrosse 5rk (05-016B, #28647), the rocket stage of the Lacrosse 5 launch, cruising...
Monday, 25 September 2006

Illustrative diagrams

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These two diagrams I prepared this weekend from recent observational data by stations Cospar 710, 2420 and me (4353) on KH-12 USA 186 (05-...
Sunday, 24 September 2006

Lacrosse 2

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A second front passed yesterday, bringing a few raindrops in the morning. Around dusk it cleared for a while, but the sky remained very ha...
Friday, 22 September 2006

USA 186 Flare Galore

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Yesterday evening at the 20:44 UTC pass I was treated to two nice flares by KH-12 Keyhole USA 186 (2005-042A, #28888). Both flares happened...
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Monday, 11 September 2006

Flare update and Cospar 4353 on Google Earth

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Pierre observed in the same flarepath of USA 186 (05-042A) yesterday evening as the one that caused the flare I observed. From western Franc...

USA 186 flare, and is it manoeuvring?

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KH-12 type Keyhole optical imaging reconnaisance sat USA 186 (05-042A, #28888) brightly flared to mag. -2 in the northwest at 21:13:06 ± 3s...
Sunday, 27 August 2006

Short observing session

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After many days with heavy rainshowers, it cleared yesterday evening. I did a short observation run: cut short alas by the return of clouds ...
Thursday, 24 August 2006

20% off on all Weapons of Mass Destruction!!!!

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Okay, after Hezbollah visited my website yesterday , they seemed to have given a call to their benefactors to check things out. Because tod...