Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Imaging FLOCK 2E 4 near decay

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In the early morning of 27 February 2018, I was imaging a rocket stage from a classified launch, the NOSS 3-4 r/b, when suddenly a very...
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Saturday, 17 February 2018

UPDATED: TLExtract 3.5

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I recently, as part of learning myself to code .NET Windows programs in Visual Basic, have started to create small, user-friendly (I...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

UNID galore! Locating Govsat-1

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The evening of 13 February 2018 was very clear. I used the WATEC video camera to track objects in Low Earth Orbit in evening twilight, a...
Friday, 9 February 2018

STARMAN (Falcon Heavy/Tesla Roadster) 2018-017A imaged in Space

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click image to enlarge The image series above shows the Falcon Heavy upper stage 2018-017A , with the Tesla Roadster of Elon Musk and ...
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Thursday, 8 February 2018

There's a Starman Waiting in the Sky

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image: SpaceX This is the freakiest, most surrealistic image related to Space I have ever seen . On February 6/7, as part of the Maid...
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Monday, 5 February 2018

The flashing behaviour of USA 81 (1992-023A)

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The video footage above was shot by me on 25 July 2017 and shows the classified satellite USA 81 (1992-023A). It is flashing rapidly, a...
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Friday, 26 January 2018

Meet the amateur astronomers who track secretive spy satellites for fun

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Somehow I totally forgot to post this here: but after the Zuma launch and subsequent rumours of a failure made headlines, I was interviewed ...
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Monday, 22 January 2018

TOPAZ/FIA Radar 5, the NROL-47 payload

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click image to enlarge The small streak in the center of the image above in a bright blue, partially cloudy twilight sky, is TOPAZ/FIA R...
Thursday, 11 January 2018

[Updated] A potential use for satellites in Zuma-like 50-degree inclined orbits

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SpaceX's launch of the Zuma satellite on 8 January was interesting, and not just because of the ongoing saga of whether it failed or...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2018

What is NROL-47 and in what orbit will it be launched? [updated twice]

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UPDATE 10 Jan 17:25 UT: The launch has been scrubbed due to high altitude winds, and moved one day to Jan 11. New start of launch w...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Fuel dump of Zuma's Falcon 9 Upper Stage observed by a Dutch pilot over east Africa (and rumours that Zuma failed)

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image (c) Peter Horstink, used with permission click image to enlarge The spectacular image above was taken by Peter Horstink , the Du...
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Thursday, 4 January 2018

A new launch attempt for ZUMA [updated twice]

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Probable launch trajectory of ZUMA (click map to enlarge)   UPDATE 1 4 Jan 2018 22:00 UT: The launch has again been postponed by one...
Tuesday, 2 January 2018

2017 in a nutshell

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All measured positions of 2017 click map to enlarge The year 2017 was a good year in as far as my satellite observations are concerned...
Thursday, 28 December 2017

Effects of December 26 Russian TOPOL RS-12M ICBM test also seen from the Netherlands

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Image (c) Bussloo Public Observatory/Mark-Jaap ten Hove click to enlarge On 26 December 2017, Russia's Strategic Missile Force cond...