• From: zerone
  • Registered: 2004-08-16

Topic: can anyone make out what this is ?

guys, while searching for equipment at work, i stumbled across this text file, which has me intrigued, to say the least.

can anyone here make some sense out of it?

http://planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt

thanks
z

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2 Reply by lyra (edited by lyra 2004-11-17 12:49:19)

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Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

Well it has something to do with space probes. It's like a spreadsheet charting info. on Russian and American space probes.  I can't decipher all of it, just some stuff.  Like Vostok and Sputnik - both are very famous Russian space probes.  You got a magna ray satellite in there, a cloud cover satellite, a dummy sub-satellite, parts for Sputnik and Vostok. There's the take off dates and dates of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.  Some are apparantly still in orbit it looks, according to the chart.   (space junk!  duck! big_smile ) I see Titan Stage 2 - that's a rocket type.  Vangaard, Explorer, Discover II, Pioneer -  American probe names it sounds like to me.  You got some other Russian stuff in there, like Sovetskiy, Molniya, Perekhodnik.   The 6th column from the left seems to say what agency was behind the launch.  NASA, USAF, (United States Air Force) JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) USN (United States Navy??) AFBMD (Air Force Base something? I don't know....)   etc.   The numbers in the 2nd column correspond to the launch year dates over in the 8th column.   Just a lotta Russian and American space info. stuff and labeling that uses the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, etc.)   and then numbers and abbreviated words that don't make any sense without the headings over the columns.

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  • From: Zion
  • Registered: 2004-09-28

Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

AFBMD = Air Force Ballistic Missile Division

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  • From: zerone
  • Registered: 2004-08-16

Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

Some are apparantly still in orbit it looks, according to the chart.   (space junk!  duck!  )

haha!

Man, just imagine... they have a crapload of Probes out in space that we never even hear about, probably going and inspecting the far planets and who knows what else!

I am still baffled as to how i stumbled across this page. i was trying to conduct a search for a Pipe Welder manufactured by a company called Omicron... and this is something that popped up.

Did anyone let this text page load all the way to 2004 ? mine was taking very long, the text kept being added but after a while i had to close it.

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Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

zonabi wrote:

I am still baffled as to how i stumbled across this page. i was trying to conduct a search for a Pipe Welder manufactured by a company called Omicron... and this is something that popped up.

Well it seems that the spread sheet shows parts and stuff for these probes and satellites.  Maybe it's possible that Omicron was a contractor for welding some of the parts used?  I don't know, just throwing something out there.  smile

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  • From: zerone
  • Registered: 2004-08-16

Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

Hmm, i just let the entire page load, loaded much faster today (DSL sucks!)

i noticed that it jumps from 1987 to 2004 .... isnt that a bit odd ?

Man i can stare at this page forever and try to make out these numbers and such. I stare in awe and amazement and also suspicion, who knows what some of these things are.

for example, one piece is labeled Nigeria-SAT1 or something. And it is in Earth Orbit. you think its a satelitte watching over Nigeria ?

Wait.... nevermind that comment on skipping from 1987 to 2004, it does do this at the bottom, but appearantly the entire page isnt in chronological order exactly...

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Re: can anyone make out what this is ?

It appears to be a table of all launched satellites with their status (minus all the military stuff i suppose). The Mother page says about the file: "Objects in the satellite catalog".
If you save it as text, you can import it into a spreadsheet (as tab delimited data) and perhaps sort by launchdate or by name, do a more analyzing. There is an object name field, international name field, launch date, status etc. I suppose it's some standard format in the astronomy or satellite community.

The name "Omicron" you found is the international desigination of the satellite, while "Discoverer 17" is the satellite name. If you put one or both into google +satellite you might. For example for Nigeria-SAT1 I found:
http://openhere.com/current/727753977.stm

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