[amsat-bb] Spacecraft Magnetic Attitude
Robert Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Wed Dec 10 11:50:29 PST 2008
To see a plot on the sky of the orientation of a magnetic
stabilized satellite (PCSAT, ECHO, etc) see this page:
www.aprs.org/attitudes.html This might be useful for those
folks with hand-held antennas.
I prepared it several years ago, but stumbled across it today
while looking for the location of the Earth's magnetic pole. I
found an interesting plot that shows the Earth's magnetic "dip
pole" moving very fast these days, almost 5 degrees in 10 years!
But unless you ever travel the arctic, I guess your boy scout
compass will be good for the rest of your life anyway...
Bob, Wb4APR
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