hummm, I looked and did not see a trailer...? I wonder with sun S Eq now, how much darker is your sky than mine at 0050 ut? would have been difficult to time pass, I only saw venus, ISS, vega, maybe I could have relative to vega... At 13:51 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Last night from the driveway of his house Mike McCants, his >wife, two of their sons, and I watched ISS -- about as bright >as Venus (?), followed by the new Progress (PROGRESS M1-9, >27531, 02045A, according to US SpaceCom), about +2.5 (?). I >didn't get a time on their separation. A while ago I heard >from my mother that my sister wanted to know what that was >following ISS last night. Our ISS culmination on that pass >was at about 0:50:20 September 28 UTC. > >On the subject of Progresses, the previous one will continue >in orbit for several more days. A SpaceflightNow story >explains: > >"Russian flight controllers have put the old Progress 8P into >an orbit away from the station. It undocked from the aft port >of the Zvezda service module at 1359 GMT (9:59 a.m. EDT) >Tuesday after a three-month stay, clearing the port for the >arrival of Progress 9P. > >"The 8P freighter will remain in space for a couple weeks, >using its onboard cameras to observe smog and smoke over >northeastern Russia. Once the test is completed, the Progress >will be deorbited...." > >http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0209/25progress/ > >Here's a current elset on the previous one: > >PROGRESS-M 46 >1 27454U 02033A 02271.64876157 .00034513 00000-0 31984-3 0 1093 >2 27454 51.6365 253.3517 0036822 272.6072 60.5285 15.66263343 14733 > >Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' >in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org >http://www.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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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