Geoff Richards
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Geoff Richards
@geoffrichards.bsky.social
Former compiler of Satellite Digest for SpaceFlight magazine
Transporter 14 TLEs now issued, 2025-135A to 135BU, but nothing identified.
July 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
V90 (1996-044C), V97 (1997-027C) and V99 (1997-049C)
April 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
April 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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.
February 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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.
February 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Congratulations, that's impressive. Many thanks.
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Looks like they are starting to eject them, possibly indicating that they only appear on deployment of the big antenna.
December 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Do you know for sure that BlueBird jettisoned the adapters this time? Possible that there was a design change from the earlier launch.
December 5, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Afraid I had to give up, health reasons. Unfortunately they couldn't find a replacement, so no more Satellite Digest.
October 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM