>However, to get an idea of the 'tightness' of attitude control of the >satellites, and how it may be relaxed over the comming months, >several >thousand km of groundtrack could be monitered. (or you could ask the >Iridium folks, but they may not talk) Precise timings of flare max >and >deviation from predicted brightness for isolated observers could also >be used for this, but I've never heard of any existing baseline from >the operational phase of the constellation to compare it with. I must admit, such an operation sounds very intriguing! Does anybody do this right now? ================================================================ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com Stay up-to-date on all events in space! Visit http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99/ Updated at least once per day! ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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