Pat Flannery wrote:


Jim Oberg wrote:
Latest news, multiple reports, and a great photograph are at
http://www.spaceweather.com/
(image is at
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod200...add1_strip.jpg)




It looks like a rocket burn; and a solid fuel rocket burn at that.
Or did something explode while firing a motor to shift its orbit?
Reconsat?

I think they've pretty much determined it was an upper stage burn.

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