Dear Graham,

There was nothing special in the separation systems between the 1U's from the ELaNa 3 launch. They are certainly close together, in fact there are three 1Us we think in the link group. Object F appears to be AubieSat and Object G is E1P. MCubed is somewhere in between it seems.

Object E is RAX-2.

--Jamie KF6RFX

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 5:51 AM, g.shirville@btinternet.com wrote:

I am intrigued that the six objects from this launch seem not to be separating as far/fast as I would have expected. After 4 weeks from launch they all seem to be still close together. Do we know if the separation springs were deliberately low power or what the separation speeds were intended to be?

many thanks

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