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Old 12th Sep 2019, 10:12
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Originally Posted by dead_pan
Somehow I doubt it was anything that secret seeing as the Russians would have had a front row seat from their section of ISS...

An experiment maybe? Also they do fly microsatellites from ISS on occasion.
I have no idea but whatever it was, there seemed nothing “micro” about its size - it was almost as bright as the ISS itself and I saw it without a telescope.
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