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File: 259 KB, 697x762, Proton-3 satellite as seen from Gemini 11, 13.9.1966.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
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Second stages are rarer due to being usually deorbited after launch, but it can easily be a derelict satellite in LEO. They tend to tumble for weeks before reentry.
Good example of this was when Proton-3 was seen by Gemini XI's crew three days before its reentry, they said it tumbled a rotation about once every second

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Soviet Proton-3 cosmic ray research satellite as seen from Gemini 11 on 13.9.1966
This was three days before Proton-3 would be destroyed during reentry, and it was seen tumbling by the Gemini crews Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon

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