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Ive been looking at some news & reports about the lost American geostationary military imaging satellite USA-197 (aka DSP F23).
Launched last year the yankee war machine lost control of it in September and its drifting along the Clarke belt. I cant find any exact tracking information about it, apart from a UK based observer has been involved in trying to monitor any radio traffic off it.
This comment on one of the sat-obs forum posts has intruiged me
Launched last year the yankee war machine lost control of it in September and its drifting along the Clarke belt. I cant find any exact tracking information about it, apart from a UK based observer has been involved in trying to monitor any radio traffic off it.
This comment on one of the sat-obs forum posts has intruiged me
Obviously Peter and myself will keep a close watch on it (referring to another satellite - A/S), and also DSP-F23 as it starts drifting through clusters of commercial satellites -- are we going to have some billiards ?
John Locker will also be watching in case he will loose any of the satellites that provide the UK and Europe with TV !