Re: ISS glints

From: Paul Henney (Paul.J.Henney@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Dec 29 2000 - 01:11:51 PST

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    Robert,
    
    Is that Progress?? I thought that Progress was docked at the Nadir port on
    Zvezda/Zarya with the crews SOYUZ craft docked at the "aft" of Zvezda???
    
    pj
    
    The craft at the rear of
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Matson, Robert" <ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com>
    To: "'Edward S Light'" <edlight@juno.com>; "'Seesat-L'"
    <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com>
    Sent: 29 December 2000 01:25
    Subject: ISS glints
    
    
    > Hi All,
    >
    > Correction to last message regarding ISS glints -- bright
    > glints off the small solar panels occur on descending node
    > passes in the early morning, not in the evening.  Whatever
    > was glinting for Ed had a surface normal that was pointing
    > about 15 degrees aft of starboard, and about 45 degrees
    > down toward nadir from the horizontal.  Looking at a
    > picture of ISS, the only thing that seems to fit would be
    > the small solar arrays on the Progress attached to the
    > back end of the station (at least I *assume* that's a
    > Progress in this picture):
    >
    > http://spaceflightnow.com/ops/stage4a/001209snapshots/withearth.html
    >
    > In this image, I believe the station is flying in the same
    > direction that the camera is pointed (i.e. the Shuttle that
    > took this picture was trailing the station at the time).
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Rob
    >
    >
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