[amsat-bb] ISS SSTV - Orbit Boost

skristof at etczone.com skristof at etczone.com
Wed Apr 13 14:09:00 UTC 2016


 

Can we reasonably assume that the AMSAT Pass Prediction page is
appropriately updated? I'm not sure how that works. 

Steve AI9IN 

On 2016-04-13 10:00, Paul Stoetzer wrote: 

> If I'm reading this complicated page correctly
> (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html [1]),
> these should now be the correct keps for the ISS:
> 
> ISS
> 1 25544U 98067A 16104.53283479 .00016717 00000-0 10270-3 0 9033
> 2 25544 51.6438 20.5148 0001725 29.1025 331.0223 15.54208672 34925
> 
> 73,
> 
> Paul, N8HM
> 
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning, The ISS SSTV event is supposed to last until 11:35 UTC tomorrow morning aside from a school contact from 12:35 UTC until 14:30 UTC today. However, there is a 252 second firing of the Progress's thrusters scheduled for 12:22 UTC today for an orbit boost, which will cause your orbit predictions to be off a bit. 73, Paul, N8HM
> 
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Links:
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