Tom Wagner wrote: > > This is probably a rhetorical > question but, is it conceivable that an astronaut could signal someone on > the earth below with a 4 x 6 inch mirror held up to a window in the ISS? > Would be nice huh. Probably never happen though. That would be a great > school project! Hi Tom and list, My late reply is due to a work overload. A proposal has been submitted to NASA HQ in mid-May about an autonomous payload to be mounted outside the ISS to produce flares on demand visible on a precise spot on Earth. For now I can't give more details. So your idea is good indeed ! Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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