Re: Iridium 56 Flare

From: Dale Ireland (direland@drdale.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 16:45:05 PST

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    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
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    ----- 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/
    >
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