Thursday, 26 April 2012

April 20 Brazilian fireball was NOT the reentry of an Atlas Centaur r/b

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A beautiful, slow, long duration, fragmenting fireball was filmed from Brazil in the evening of April 20 (20 April near 20-21h UT). Movies c...
Friday, 6 April 2012

FIA Radar 2 (NROL-25) observed - with video

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On the night of April 3/4, the NRO launched NROL-25 , a new classified satellite. This satellite, FIA Radar 2 (USA 234) is the second of...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012

OT: a multistation filmed meteor from 27 March - some results on the trajectory

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In the early morning of March 27, while waiting for a pass of ATV-3 , I accidentally filmed a nice meteor from Leiden. As it turned out, the...

The Nanosail UNID (10-062X) and Lacrosse 5 brightness variation

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When NASA's experimental solar sail Nanosail-D was launched by a Minotaur IV rocket in 2010, it was not the only object this launch ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012

(video) A last view of ESA's ATV-3, with ISS, FIA Radar 1 and an old Russian Soyuz upper stage

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click image to enlarge This morning near 3:39 UTC (5:39 am local time), Europeans could witness the last visible pass of ESA's S...
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Video: ATV 3 'Edouardo Amaldi', a meteor, and the ISS this morning

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This morning I was up early to capture the 3:29 UTC (5:29 am CEST) pass of ESA's space freighter ATV-3 "Edouardo Amaldi" ....
Saturday, 24 March 2012

Brightness variability of the NOSS 3-3 Centaur Upper Stage (with video)

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NOSS 3-3 is a pair of US Navy NOSS surveillance satellites launched early 2005. The Centaur upper stage of this NOSS 3-3 launch , NOSS 3-3r ...

Footage of ATV 3 passing in morning twilight of March 24

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The footage above shows the European cargoship ATV 3 'Edouardo Amaldi' as it passed over Leiden this morning near 4:54 UTC...
Friday, 23 March 2012

Video of Metop-A (06-044A) flaring brilliantly

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click images to enlarge Metop-A (06-044A) is the first operational satellite in a planned series of European meteorological (...

Newly launched ATV 3 cargoship in twilight

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This morning at 4:34 UTC, the European Space Agency ESA launched the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) cargoship, ATV 3 "Edouard...
Thursday, 22 March 2012

SAR Lupe 4 and USA 129 (pass footage)

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Like a few days ago , I used the WATEC 902H video camera  yesterday evening to film a pass of  USA 129. Near 19:41:30 UTC (21 March), the ...
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Footage of a pass of the KH-12 Keyhole optical reconnaissance satellite USA 129

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Spring is a time when not only some birds appear out of their winter hiding, but some satellites emerge from winter darkness as well. Amo...
Friday, 16 March 2012

MiTEx 1, AEHF 1 and Prowler

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Weather conditions have not been too well lately. In the evening of March 14, I could do some imaging from Leiden, albeit under hazy skies. ...

André Kuipers talking from Space

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This morning near 11:14 local time (10:14 UTC), Dutch astronaut André Kuipers onboard the ISS had a radio talk with a school class in Belgi...
Friday, 24 February 2012

Space debris lands in Brazil village

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Through Carlos Bella on the satobs mailing list, news broke today that an object which almost certainly is space-debris crashed in the Braz...
Friday, 17 February 2012

Lacrosse 5

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For those arriving here through the link with Thierry's imaging of Lacrosse 5 on Spaceweather : a discussion of the Lacrosse 5 "dis...
Friday, 10 February 2012

The Iranian satellite Navid photographed

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On February 3, 2012 , Iran succesfully launched its third satellite into orbit, Navid (2012-005A), using a Safir rocket. This evening was...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

FIA Radar 1 through the Pleiades, and Geostationary satellites in Orion

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  click image to enlarge The picture above (10s exposure taken with a Canon 450D and SamYang 1.4/85 mm lens) shows the classified milit...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Phobos-Grunt: a final TIP on where it came down

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USSTRATCOM today (Jan 23rd) has finally released a traditional format final TIP for Phobos-Grunt. It yields similar values to the ones init...
Monday, 16 January 2012

More thoughts on the Phobos-Grunt reentry

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It appears that the Russian news bulletins claiming that Phobos-Grunt reentered over the southern Pacific at 17:45 UT yesterday (see my prev...