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Old 16-08-2010, 04:19 PM
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Astrofest rocket plume, military satelite?

Hi everyone,

For those who witnessed the spectacular rocket plume at Astrofest on Saturday night, especially for the group of us dancing around with joy at seeing this in the big dobs.

This event was clearly very high altitude, definatly not low orbit, I was saying on Saturday night that it was probally a Geo-stationary satelite making an orbital correction.

But this was sent to me today and could be what we witnessed on Sat night. They launched this on Saturday as well and it was heading to be parked into Geo orbit.

Do you guys thing this was it?

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...ch-100814.html

Matt.
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