Hi all, Now is the time to make interesting observations of the ISS and the Progress M1-4 trash can. The scheduled redocking of this ship is to take place at 11:02 UT on Dec. 26. Until then, Progress manoeuvres around the station. On Dec. 20 at 12:55 UT, its orbit was raised to be about 5 km above ISS. This is causing ISS to catch up on Progress witn closest approach at around 21:42 UT today, Dec. 23. Separation should be a little more than 4 km. After that, Progress will trail ISS with a distance increasing to 640 km where it will be manoeuvred in a lower orbit again to catch up with the ISS from below. Station keeping at 200 meters from the nadir docking port of the Zarya module is to occur at 10:36 UT on the 26. Gidzenko will then pilot the craft using the TORU system to a docking at 11:02. So there are interesting ISS obs to come along with an solar eclipse on Christmas day that happens to be my birthday also. In Quebec we are the most favorably placed to watch this event but the weather doesn't look promising. Happy Holiday season to all, Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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