[amsat-bb] Fwd: Decay Forecast 03 FCAL SPHERE 2

Bob Bruninga bruninga at usna.edu
Sat May 24 16:02:49 PDT 2008


FCAL amateur satellite may be coming in tonight or tomorrow.  Here is what Harro Simmer predicts:
See if you can be the last to get telemetry.  1200 baud AFSK on 437.385 +/- 10 KHz doppler.  WEB page:
http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/fcal.html

---- Original message ----
>Date: 24 May 2008 18:20 GMT
>   2006-06055J (#29667) FCAL SPHERE 2
>
>   My SP - Program delivers with the ELSETs
>   08144.821... -08145.491...
>   (Ap 009, SFX 068) the decay on
>   25 May, 12:28 UT +/- 22 minutes (18.06°S,
>   229.53°E) ascending over the South Atlantic.
>   This is in nice agreement with SPACETRACKs last
>   prediction issued  24 May 11:53 UT:
>
>   25 May, 12:23 UT +/- 16 hours (32.2°S, 325.9°E)
>   also northbound over the South Atlantic.
>   BTW: On 25 May between 09:00 and 15:00 UTC there is
>   no pass over  North America.
>
>   Harro Zimmer, Berlin (Germany)



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