Jonathan T Wojack wrote: > > > For anyone who watched contour in earth orbit. > > > > So Far On Oct 17, a russian proton rocket will place the Intergral > > spacecraft into orbit. > > > > The orbit of intergral is going to be approx 10,000 by 153,000 > > kilometer's ( > > km ) inclined 51.6 degrees to the equator. > > > > They plan to increase it's perigee to 31,000 km during 5 years , and > > the > > inclination will change to 86.5 after being in orbit 5 years. > > > > Since this is a bigger satellite then contour, there will be a > > better chance > > of seeing it. Unlike contour, it will stay in earth orbit. > > > > So a high earth orbit object to observe soon :) > > Interesting.... > > What is the purose/mission of Integral (a science or technology > demonstration mission, I would assume) ? Is there an "official" web page > for Integral? > Integral is acronym for INTErnational Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/integral/ > --------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com > 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) > http://www.geocities.com/tlj18_99 > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420(2)21403255, fax +420(2)24240611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html FOR SENDING VOLUMINOUS APPENDED FILES (greater than 250 KB) USE ALTERNATE ADDRESS:vitek1@lib.cas.cz and notify me at avitek@lib.cas.cz ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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