Hi,

Could very well be solar panel covers. At first I thought they were payload fairings, but they were jettisoned long before orbit was achieved.

There is also a cover for the navigation suite/ berthing mechanism that gets jettisoned.

Looks like SpaceTrak has the Dragon launch catologed as objects 38348 - 38351. No id's on anything yet.

73 Armando, N8IGJ

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Williams" Tdub20120@yahoo.com To: "Armando Mercado" am25544@triton.net Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SpaceX / Falcon 9 Dragon sighting

Solar array covers?

http://nasatech.net/ntF9DRAGON-COTS2-3_PAGE.html

Tom KJ4EAW

On May 22, 2012, at 2:55 AM, "Armando Mercado" am25544@triton.net wrote:

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Hello,

Falcon 9/Dragon was sighted from West Michigan. It (they) were about 15 mins behind the ISS. There were 4 objects total, 1 object in front was of steady brightness approximately 1st magitude. This was the Dragon I think.

The other three were tumbling shinning from 1 to <4 magitude at about one flash per 3 seconds. One object would be the booster, don't know what the other 2 would be.

Everything passed about 3 degrees north of Altair at 0927UTC.

Good luck Dragon.