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Re:(meteorobs) (OT) Re: Tri-satellite formation..
Thanks to Ed Cannon for the web sites. After seeing these satellites I
wondered what the point of orbiting the satellites in tandem would be.
One of the web pages explained that they are able to triangulate
locations of radar and radio sites.
Cloudy weather in Portland keeps us from seeing these or meteors
Ed Cannon wrote:
> This inquiry was sent to the list:
>
> > my husband and I both observed three points of light in an
> > elongated triangle moving quite fast across the western
> > sky. [...]
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on what we may have seen?
>
> Several have mentioned the NOSS satellites. From what I've
> read, there have been two programs of triangle formations;
> I'll call them "old" and "new". The old ones are faint and
> almost always require skilled use of a telescope to be
> observed. The new ones are observed at one-power by
> accident from time to time and in such a case almost always
> make a great impression. Meteor observers -- ahem,
> meteoricists (why not "meteorists"?) -- might see them by
> accident more than any other group due to watching dark
> skies using "eyes only".
>
> There are some articles about them on a couple of Web sites.
> On these sites, the old ones are called "NOSS", and the new
> ones are called "SB-WASS" (Navy; SB-WASS US Air Force is
> something else):
>
> Federation of American Scientists:
>
> http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/sigint/
> http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/surveill/noss.htm
> http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/surveill/sbwass_n.htm
>
> Dave's Space page:
>
> http://users.ox.acdot uk/~daveh/Space/Military/
> (choose "Surveillance")
>
> Clear and dark nights--
>
> Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
> http://wwwvms.utexasdot edu/~ecannon/meteorlinks.html
>
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