I heard from a very informed source that the new Titan IV will begin making passes over the (southern) USA tonight. As the most recent elements (below) are from August 6, it may be that no more are being released (by SpaceCom). This is a big object, so it should be pretty bright on reasonably good passes. I think that it's likely to be tumbling (slowly?), as do the Lacrosse 3 and 4 Titans. USA 159 (DSP 21) Titan 4 r 663 x 329 km 1 26881U 0133B 01218.36215998 .00000332 00000-0 00000-0 0 19 2 26881 28.6968 249.1085 0243087 78.4785 282.1509 15.23242448 11 Now a little thing that's puzzling me. I would think that this would be the USA 159 R/B (1), but that's not what OIG says right now: 26880 USA-159 No TLE found. TITAN IV R/B 1 26881U 0133B 01218.36215998 .00000332 00000-0 00000+0 0 18 2 26881 28.6968 249.1085 0243087 78.4785 282.1509 15.23242448 11 26882 USA-159 R/B (1) No TLE found. 26883 USA-159 R/B (2) No TLE found. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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