Click here to view a ground trace of that half orbit. Click here to view the final Starshine 3 re-entry assessments from the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the Aerospace Corporation and Mr. Harro Zimmer of Berlin, Germany. Since all of that path was in darkness, and the first portion of is well-populated, we had high hopes that someone would see the satellite blazing across the sky. However, to this time we have had no confirmed sightings. Overcast skies and coastal fog in California denied a number of eager observers in that area an opportunity to see it.

We're still hoping for some delayed reports, so if you sighted the re-entry fireball, please send an email to the Starshine project director at gilmoore@aol.com. In your message, please state your location when you saw it, as precisely as possible, and give us a narrative description of the appearance and description of the fireball. If you also obtained one or more images of it, please include that information in your message, together with your name, email address and telephone number. You will be contacted immediately and given information on where to send your image or images for evaluation by our panel of astrophotographers.