Is Iridium attitude control something that requires frequent control from ground stations or is it a rather automatic function that may continue without ground commands for months or more?? Dale Ireland 47.7N 122.7W Astronomy Page http://www.drdale.com Comets, Satellites, Eclipses, Photography, Fabrications ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mir16609@aol.com> To: <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 4:29 PM Subject: Iridium 56 Flare > Iridium 56 made a nice, predicted -3 mag flare at 00:20:45 UTC 19 March > through some moderate clould cover. The flare occurred at 7 az, 40 el - just > to the right of Polaris. Hopefully there will still be some attitude control > for the constellation for a while. > > Cheers, > Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL > Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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