Friday, 3 December 2021

Some first analytical results on the debris from the Russian ASAT test of 15 November 2021

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  click image to enlarge   In my previous post I discussed the November 15 Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test on the defunct Kosmos 1408 satellite...
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021

The Russian Federation conducted a destructive ASAT test on Kosmos 1408 on November 15 [updated]

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click map to enlarge   In the early morning of November 15, astronauts and kosmonauts onboard the ISS were instructed to put on their spaces...
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Thursday, 11 November 2021

PAN/NEMESIS 1 is still drifting

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  click image to enlarge In a blog post in September , I wrote that after almost eight years of being steady at longitude 47.7 E, the classi...
Monday, 18 October 2021

The Chinese space plane test of 16 July 2021: orbital, not suborbital?

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click map to enlarge   In my previous post I debated at length a claim by the Financial Times on October 16 that China recently did a FOBS ...
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Sunday, 17 October 2021

A Chinese FOBS surprise (and other stuff of nightmares) [UPDATED]

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  [ this post was updated on October 18 to reflect new information and a refutal of the claim by the Chinese Government. It was again update...
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Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Spectacular deorbit burn / fuel dump from the Landsat 9 Centaur upper stage observed

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click to enlarge   Yesterday 27 September 2021 at 18:12 UT, Landsat 9 was launched from Vandenberg with a ULA Atlas V rocket.  2h 58m afte...
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Friday, 17 September 2021

Inspiration4 Crew Dragon over the old Leiden Observatory

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click to enlarge   The image above, which I shot yesterday evening (16 September 2021) around 19:24 UT, shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Inspira...

An upcoming Trident-II D5 SLBM test in the Atlantic

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click map to enlarge A few days ago a Navigational Warning ( NAVAREA IV 838/21 , also issued as HYDROLANT 2336/21 ) appeared which points t...
Tuesday, 14 September 2021

PAN (NEMESIS 1) is on the move again

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Pan on August 8/9, 2021, imaged from Leiden. Click image to enlarge Five years ago, in 2016, I wrote a long article in The Space Review tit...
Sunday, 12 September 2021

An Asteroid for Alice

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    As long-time readers of this blog know, I have been active in searching for Near Earth Asteroids (discovering two: 2005 GG 81 and 2015...
Friday, 27 August 2021

First positive observations of the LED beacon of the NAPA-2 6U cubesat

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  On June 30, 2021, a Falcon 9 launched several cubesats in a rideshare launch called Transporter-2 . One of the payloads was a 6U cubesat c...