[amsat-bb] Re: ISS - Jules Verne

[Jeff Mock]

It's been fun watching it with gpredict for the last 10 days or so  (you 
need to update the keplers every day).  For a long time it trailed 
behind the ISS, slightly lower and slightly faster, catching up with ISS 
a little bit each day.  A few days ago it zoomed ahead of ISS.  I 
thought this was an error in my keplers, but is evidently part of the 
exercise with the first ATV to do a simulated collision avoidance maneuver.

I wonder what the visual range to the Jules Verne is from the ISS, it's 
so large that you must be able to spot it from quite a distance onboard 
the ISS.

It's definitely worth loading into your favorite satellite tracking program.

jeff


Udo Schneider wrote:
> Have a look at  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
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> Udo, DL7OL
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