Hello John Sarkissian has Worked out what we saw on Saturday night. This is the link to Steve Quirks website that shows an image of a rocket burn Steve imaged in 1990.It has the same shape we saw on Saturday night.
http://www.my.hwy.com.au/~sjquirk/im...lm/rocket.html
I just got this information in an email as we were speaking a short while ago. I think this may be it. The rocket firing may have been the boost into geosynchronous orbit.
Raduga-1
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A Russian military communications satellite in the Globus series
(cover name Raduga-1) was launched on Feb 28 by a Khrunichev Proton-K
with an Energiya DM-2 upper stage. The previous launch in the series
was a modified Raduga-1M launched with the more modern Proton-M/Briz-M
rocket; the use of the older rocket suggests that this one is indeed just
a Raduga-1 and not a Raduga-1M. The new Raduga-1 was in geosynchronous
orbit in the 90 E region late on Feb 28.
Regards, John.
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