[amsat-bb] Re: ANDE now @220km

[Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]]

Looks like she is headed down hill a bit faster now. I show her at 215
km. That is down 5 km more from your posting just about 24 hours ago 


Kenneth - N5VHO

-----Original Message-----
From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
Behalf Of Henk, PA3GUO
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:21 PM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] ANDE now @220km

As I am not so much into maths on this topic, the only
thing I do is plot the current heigth of ANDE in the graph:
http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/hamoen/pa3guo/ande_predict_pa3guo_12dec
2007.jpg

One might conclude from this that from 220km to de-orbit the
graph shows ~12 days, so de-orbit today + ~12 days = ~24 Dec.
... BUT: if for any reason ANDE comes down faster we're almost there !

There is a good bunch of activity these days;
many stations Igate the packets,
many stations make contacts via ANDE in these final days.

And: have a look at http://www.ande-deorbit.com for details on the AWARD

Henk, PA3GUO
http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo




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