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Geoff Richards

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Former compiler of Satellite Digest for SpaceFlight magazine

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Transporter 14 TLEs now issued, 2025-135A to 135BU, but nothing identified.

19.07.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

V90 (1996-044C), V97 (1997-027C) and V99 (1997-049C)

27.04.2025 16:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They've issued some more, three of them dated over twenty years ago for Ariane 4 upper stages in GTO with a given lifetime of a couple of days.

27.04.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Apparently based on Chinese announcement that Zhongxing 9C is due to be launched in the first quarter of this year, and guessing it was the payload of the next Chang Zheng 3B.

25.02.2025 14:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There was a pre-launch rumour on the NSF forum that Zhongxing 9C was the payload. It's apparently due to be launched sometime soon.

24.02.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations, that's impressive. Many thanks.

23.01.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks like they are starting to eject them, possibly indicating that they only appear on deployment of the big antenna.

20.12.2024 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you know for sure that BlueBird jettisoned the adapters this time? Possible that there was a design change from the earlier launch.

05.12.2024 09:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Afraid I had to give up, health reasons. Unfortunately they couldn't find a replacement, so no more Satellite Digest.

19.10.2024 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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