Wednesday, 30 September 2020

A very unusual fireball over NW Europe on 22 September 2020 (that went in and out of the atmosphere again)

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  The fireball of 22 sept 2020, ~3:53:40 UT. Image (c) Cees Bassa (stack of 2 images) In the early morning of 22 September 2020 , around 3:...
Sunday, 20 September 2020

Observing the mysterious "Object A" (2020-063G), left in orbit by China's 'Spaceplane'

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  Earlier this month I wrote a post about China's brand new, recently launched and landed 'Reusable Test Spacecraft' (2020-0...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

The structure of Space (2): formation of a geosynchronous ring

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  A year ago, I published a post on ' The structure of Space '. In that contribution, I discussed structure in orbital element spac...
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Friday, 11 September 2020

Important update of my SkyTrack software [UPDATED]

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  In the context of the probable landing site of the recent Chinese Experimental Spacecraft (see previous post ), I discovered a serious bug...
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Saturday, 5 September 2020

China launches a 'Reusable Experimental Spacecraft' - a Space Plane? [UPDATED MULTIPLE TIMES]

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Early September 2020, the space tracking community was in nervous anticipation of a rather mysterious Chinese launch. Amidst tight security ...
Thursday, 6 August 2020

15 years of the SatTrackCam (b)log!!!

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I hardly can't believe it: but today, this blog turns 15 years! It all started very humble. The very first post on this blog, titled ...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2020

NROL-129 payloads located on-orbit

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click image to enlarge On July 15, 2020, at 13:46 UT , the NRO launched NROL-129 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops, usin...
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Sunday, 12 July 2020

OT: Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

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click to enlarge The image above shows comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE , which is currently visible low on the northern horizon after sunset and...
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