I heard Mir go over my location today and I watched it on my computer screen at the same time... I was using the latest TLE's and the station was 5 minutes early... My program is always within one second of the actual location of the craft and today my scanner was picking up the signal about 5-6 minutes before it came into my radio range... Any other Mir confusion out there? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== Josh R. Williams Latitude: 41 deg 59' 29" N E-Mail: sponge@nebula.net Longitude: 83 deg 27' 41" W J.R.W. Satellite Page -- URL: http://www.nebula.net/~sponge/ =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Dave Mullenix wrote: > >I looked for Mir on Dec. 14th using a TLE dated 342.555 and didn't see > >anything. It may have been in eclipse, but Traksat said it should be in > >sunlight until after it passed over my area. It's been cloudy ever > >since so I haven't been able to look for it since then. But a friend > >in Memphis looked for it on Dec. 16th and saw nothing at the predicted > >time, but between 5 and 10 minutes later a bright satellite passed > >over. It wasn't Progress, since Progress had not been launched yet. > > It's been cloudy here too, but I listened to it come over last Saturday and > it was about ten minutes late then too. I think the orbital elements are > off. > > Mir just reboosted, but according to reports they only raised their orbit > by a few km. Maybe they've fired their rockets again? > > Dave Mullenix > > >