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 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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