This is reminiscent of the Salyut stations, particularly before the availability of Progress vehicles for waste disposal. The extra objects were sacks of rubbish ejected through an airlock. With those events, an appearance of several extra objects was normally followed quickly by a small orbital adjustment to ensure rapid separation. On 8 Oct 2001, at 20:54, Tristan Cools wrote: Hello, I just saw an ISS pass here over Belgium at 17:58UTC. In front(some 2 degrees) there was another object moving. I didn't expect that. The unknown object was much fainter than ISS, maybe mag +5. Does this have something to do with the ongoing spacewalk which was planned today ? See here: ALPHA SPACEWALK TODAY --------------------- The two Russian cosmonauts of the Expedition Three crew living on the international space station will step outside today for a spacewalk to perform outfitting of the newly arrived Pirs docking module. The excursion begins at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT). Greetings, Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html _________________________________ bob@zarya.freeserve.co.uk http://www.zarya.freeserve.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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