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Perhaps this. The second oldest artificial satellite in space NORAD 00012. Launch date February 17, 1959.
I have pictures of it in the archive here:
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/00012/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_2
The oldest object still in orbit is ID 00005.
That sat has been circling Earth, needlessly, since 1959! #SpaceJunk #RocketBody
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First classified satellite of the night is ID 28096. The "ATLAS 2AS CENTAUR" rocket body from 2003, according to N2YO.
I have a quite a few of this sat in the archive already.
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Two classified satellites cruising by...
28541 and 28537.
USA 181 is the classified satellite on bottom, the one on top is the satellite's rocket debris.
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The first artificial satellite identified for the night is "SL-8" rocket body, launched by the Soviets back on October 14, 1987.
So this is just part of the rocket body that deployed a satellite decades ago. Spinning and spinning...
ID 18403.
This image also adds separate colors for Oneweb and Starlink satellites.
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First artificial satellite of the night is a Chinese rocket body from 2017. Really bright! ID 43084.
The other object is a Starlink from 2021, 47831.
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Last night I got a faint photo of the TWELFTH artificial object tracked in space!
This is a Vanguard rocket body launched February 17th, 1959.
Yes, this space junk has been circling the globe since 1959, and will continue to do so...
The object is 00012 in the bottom left of the picture.
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Another pic of 00694. Super bright space junk that has been uselessly orbiting Earth since launched in 1963. This is the rocket body itself.
Very bright!
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Found an old one. New to the archive. ID 00694.
USA ATLAS CENTAUR 2 rocket body. Needlessly orbiting since 1963.
Dark line in bottom left.
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American #RocketBody, junk uselessly orbiting Earth since 1977.
New in archive, ID 10144.
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"Thor Burner" is not from a smoke shop, it's from the military!
Thor Burner, a #RocketBody from 1969, still circling Earth as #spacejunk
Identified tonight, ID 04048.
Some camera shake from wind, but still got it.
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/04048/2023-03-18T02-35-06.966.fits.png
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First new satellites of the night:
Old rocket bodies, one old Soviet, one from the recent Falcon 9 launch.
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/18737/2023-02-17T01:29:33.526.fits.png
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/49776/2023-02-17T01:28:18.001_49776_catalog.png
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Running cams for #satellites tonight at
Also testing a live stream at:
Got first sat of the night, ID 12508, a Soviet #rocketBody from 1971.
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A 1961 rocket body from the USA is the first object detected of the night.
ID 00118, a very low, still-active NORAD ID.
It was first seen by me just a few days ago.
Center bottom in pic.
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This photo has two old rocket bodies from the #ColdWar.
The new unique one is from the #Soviet Union, launched in 1970. ID 04391.
The other, ID 02144, is an even older rocket body from the USA, launched in 1966.
6,092 unique #satellites identified.
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Oooh Really old one just photo'd for the first time, ID 00118.
A USA #rocketBody launched in 1961.
More pics of it here:
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/00118/
Also in pic, a #Starlink (again...) from 2020 (ID 45730) and an unidentified track.
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Here's a #Soviet #rocketBody launched in 1971. ID 01575.
Also in the pic, is a #Starlink #satellite launched last September, ID 53729.
Below that is a Starlink sat launched just over a year ago, ID 51144.
Up to 6,083 unique IDs now.
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Also got a Chinese #rocketbody, NORAD 54588, launched in December 2022.
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USA rocket bodies passing each other in the night...<to sinatra>
One from 1964, one from 1976.
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ooooh!
I just got one waaaay older. A useless USA #RocketBody orbiting since 1961!
It is in the top center of this photo, 00082.
That means it was the eighty second artificial satellite NORAD ever counted! Most of the older ones have de-orbited by now.
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Tonight hits over 6,000 unique #satellites I photographed, detected, and identifed.
The archive of all satellites is available, sorted by NORAD ID.
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/
Creative Commons CC by SA 4.0.Libre #stvid software
https://github.com/cbassa/stvid#SatelliteDebris #Space #RocketBody #Environment #LightPollution
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Super bright old #satellitedebris #rocketbody from the Soviet Union, launched in 1982. NORAD ID 13242.
Now totally useless, circling Earth for over forty years.
Note, photos colors are inverted. Forgot to mention that.
Previous pics of it here:
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/13242/ -
Photo of REALLY bright Chinese #rocketbody #spacedebris launched in 2022, ID 52794.
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Just took a photo for the first time of NORAD ID 00204, a #spacedebris #rocketbody launched in 1961!
https://spacecruft.fit/sats/00204/
ID 54025, also in the frame, is a rocket body from 2022 launch...
Now at 5,977 unique sats ID'd.
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Another Soviet rocket body, this time from 1975 (ID 8459).
Yes, this useless rocket body has been orbiting Earth, annoying astronomers since 1975. ;)