Re: Officials unable to contact animal-carrying spaceship = Foton M4

From: Scott Tilley via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 00:24:42 -0700
FOTON M4 appears to remain in the low perigee orbit:

40095 14 041A   8049 G 20140729065602994 17 25 0559684+682978 37 S
40095 14 041A   8049 G 20140729065604315 17 25 0554178+675207 37 S

Regards,
Scott

ROBERTS CREEK 1:
8049 ST 49.4348 -123.6685 40. Scott Tilley
ROBERTS CREEK 2:
8048 ST 49.4175 -123.6420 1. Scott Tilley




On 14-07-28 02:21 PM, Robert Holdsworth via Seesat-l wrote:
> According to the following article communication has been
> re-established, but as yet the orbit had not yet been raised at the
> time of writing so  perigee is given as 155 miles.
>
> http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1407/26fotonm4/
>
> Southern Hemisphere observers have  good chances to see it this week
> but in my case the chances of observing it in the current and expected
> weather conditions are probably zero!
>
> Robert
> Wainuiomata
> New Zealand
> S 41.244
> E 174.946
> (changed location owing to new home address.)
>
>
>
> On 25 July 2014 16:17, Robert Holdsworth <robbonz_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some good passes here next week for the Southern Hemisphere.   The
>> object itself will not be particularly bright but it should be
>> possible to check for flashes if our crazy weather winter cooperates!
>>
>> Robert
>> Wainuiomata
>> New Zealand
>> S 41.244
>> E 174.946
>> (changed location owing to new home address.)
>>
>> On 25 July 2014 11:29, via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
>>> It might be useful to visually observe it to see if it appears to be
>>> tumbling.
>>>
>>> I have no passes for several days.
>>>
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