[amsat-bb] Re: NASA's American Student Moon Orbiter...

[Edward Cole]

When the Apollo orbited the Moon it was behind and out of contact 
about 20-minutes per orbit.
Ed - KL7UW

At 12:45 PM 7/2/2008, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
>Probably not. Would it not spend a significant amount of it's time 
>behind the moon where you can't see it?
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>Dave hartzell wrote:
> > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25839
> > http://asmo.arc.nasa.gov/
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> > Wouldn't it be fun to have a transponder on this!  ;-)
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