Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Reshaping this blog

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Yes, this is still the same blog , but it looks slightly different. The design of this blog was over 11 years old. Even though the focus o...
Friday, 11 November 2016

Chinese CZ-11 rocket stage impacts Myanmar Jade quarry (updated)

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On November 9 at 23:42 UT (November 10 in local time), China launched a Long March 11 (CZ-11) rocket from Jiuquan on a south-bound trajector...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

A NEMESIS in the sky: PAN, Mentor 4 and close encounters of the SIGINT kind

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I have published an article with the above title in The Space Review . Click here to read it .
Saturday, 23 July 2016

The fabrications of Masami Kuramoto (again on MH17 and the suspect Russian MoD pictures)

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In January, I posted an analysis of images provided by the Russian MoD during a press conference in July 2014, a few days after the shootd...
Wednesday, 20 July 2016

SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 chasing the ISS in the sky

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ISS and Dragon CRS-9. Click to enlarge Last night was a clear and very warm, moonlit night (21 deg C). It was warm enough to observe in...
Tuesday, 19 July 2016

Reentry of Soyuz rocket upper stage from Progress MS-03 launch seen from New Zealand, 19 Jul 2016

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On July 19, 2016, near ~6:30 UT (~18:30 local time), a bright very slow and long-lasting fireball was reported by many people from New Zeala...
Friday, 8 July 2016

MUOS 5 stuck in GTO

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The website Spaceflight.com has broken the news that something has gone wrong with the orbit raising manoeuvres of MUOS 5 . They have ther...
Thursday, 7 July 2016

Tracking MUOS 5 in GTO [UPDATED]

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click to enlarge Over the past days, Paul Camilleri in Australia and me in the Netherlands have been tracking an object in GTO with...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

USA 224 recovered: an update of the KH-11 constellation

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Russell Eberst in Scotland has recovered the noon-plane KH-11 ADVANCED CRYSTAL/"Keyhole" optical reconnaissance satellite U...
Monday, 27 June 2016

Mentor 7 (NROL-37) stopped drifting at 102.6 E

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Mentor 7 on 25 June 2016  image (c) Paul Camilleri, used with permission click to enlarge On June 11, 2016, the National Reconnaisan...
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Friday, 24 June 2016

MUOS 5 GTO insertion and Centaur fuel dump imaged from Australia

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click to enlarge image (c) Paul Camilleri - used with permission The spectacular image above was kindly made available to me by Paul ...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

Updated orbit for Mentor 7 (NROL-37 payload)

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In my previous post I reported that the geosynchronous payload of June 11th's NROL-37 launch , the SIGINT satellite Mentor 7 (USA 26...
Saturday, 18 June 2016

Mentor 7, the NROL-37 payload, found

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Launch of NROL-37 (photo credit: ULA) On 11 June 2016 at 17:51 UT, after a one-day postponement, the US National Reconnaissance Office ...
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Geostationary bonanza

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click to enlarge The images above and below are two small parts of one single image shot on May 2nd 2016, using a SamYang 1.4/85mm len...
Sunday, 3 April 2016

More on the Hitomi/ASTRO-H breakup

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Hitomi and its debris train (click image to enlarge) In a previous post from a few days ago, I discussed the debris shedding event ...
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Thursday, 31 March 2016

USA 186 rising, and revisiting the KH-11 constellation

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click image to enlarge The image above shows the KH-11 ADVANCED CRYSTAL/"KeyHole" optical reconnaissance satellite USA 186 ...
Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Hitomi (ASTRO-H) scientific X-ray satellite suffered an orbit-altering event

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On 26 March 2016 near 1:42 UT, the Japanese Hitomi/ASTRO-H satellite , a scientific Röntgen space telescope launched February 17, suffered ...
Saturday, 12 March 2016

MUOS 4 recovered at 75 E

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MUOS 4 at 74.8 E on 8 March 2016 image (c) by Greg Roberts, South Africa (click to enlarge) In a recent post I wrote that MUOS 4 (2...