Other Information.

The following are some pointers to various sources of further information.

• Orbital Elements
• Space-Track.org is the primary distributor of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 2-line orbital elements and related data, replacing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Orbital Information Group (OIG), which permanently ceased operations on 2005 Mar 31.
• T.S. Kelso provides orbital elements and related software via his CelesTrak website.
• NASA's Human Space Flight website provides predicted ISS and Shuttle elements, which take into account planned orbit manoeuvres.
• AMSAT's WWW server provides elements of satellites of interest primarily to radio amateurs.
  
• On-line Predictions
• Heavens-Above, in Munich, Germany provides prediction services for bright satellites, including the ISS, the shuttle, and Iridium satellites. You can either input your own coordinates, use a nearby city or determine your coordinates using their data base. Further information for beginning observers can be found here
• If your web-browser has Java capabilities, you can now observe over 500 satellites in real time in 3-D by going to Marshall Flight Center's Lift-Off 3-D JTrack .
• You can also find predicted sky-tracks for the ISS, shuttle (when it's up) and some other bright satellites at Marshall Flight Center's Lift-Off J-Track 2.5.
• NASA's Office of Spaceflight is providing ISS viewing predictions for over 1000 locations worldwide.

• Satellite Observing
• Useful information (98k) for beginning observers, Introduction to Visual Satellite Observing.
• Ed Cannon provides many links to various satellite observing resources.

• Clear Sky Clock will predict cloud coverage in Canada and the US for the next 48 hours. Helpful in forecasting future observing conditions.

• Paul Maley, who is an experienced satellite observer, has produced an excellent web site on satellite observing.

• Aris Tanone provides resource links for visually observing satellites.
• Mike McCants provides the IOD Observation Format Description as well as the program ObsEntry created by G. Lewis to produce the format.
• Clark Lindsey maintains a well linked Satellite Watching page.
• The Amateur Satellite Observers of Southeast Virginia (ASOSV) are back on the web.
• Ron Dantowitz and Marek Kozubal maintain a site devoted to satellite observing.
• Alphonse Pouplier maintains a page for his software "Mir" along with local predictions.
• Check out the SeeSat-L Members Page
• SeeSat-L "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ)

• Think you might be interested in building your own computer driven telescope drive system? Check out Willie Koorts' CoSaTrak system.

• Paolo Cosetti's homepage and website for his SATBUSTER satellite tracking program have great resource information for the satellite observer.

for other great satellite information pages...

• Space Information
• General
• Jonathan McDowell's Space Report details the most recent launches and provides mission details.
• Ron Baalke maintains the Space Calendar at the JPL. It details upcoming launches with background information and links.
• The SPACEWARN bulletins at the NSSDC provide launch and re-entry details.
• Looking for the satellite catalog number or international designation for a known (common name) satellite? Take a look at T.S. Kelso's SATCAT search form.

• Rick Oestmann maintains a database of pictures of various satellites.

• US Strategic Command
• NASA news can be found at MIT.
• Recent ESA press releases can be found here.
• Ben Huset's Space Pages provides links to various space related web sites.
• Anatoly Zak's Russian Space Program provides background information on some of Russia's rocket projects.

• Space News Services
• Space Flight Now
• Space Daily
• Space Ref
• Space.Com

• Space Shuttle
• The Crew of STS-90 maintained an informative web site regarding their mission in April 1998.
• The official NASA shuttle mission server.
• AMSAT-NA provides shuttle elements.

• Mir space station
• Chris van den Berg's archived MIR news reports contain information on Progress and Soyuz launches and the activities of the Mir cosmonauts. The latest reports are also maintained locally.
• The EuroMir 97 home page.

Links to the: VSO Home Page, Tracking Programs & TLE Resources, and Satellite Predictions.