On Jan 25 a new satellite called sorce is scheduled to be lauched. Here's a website for it http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/index.html Anyways I thought I would have some fun and try and generate a predicted orbit for it by looking at it's lauch ground track. Which is here http://lasp.colorado.edu/sorce/launch.html Here's the very very very approx orbit, I get:) Sorce 1 99999U 03025.84027778 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00001 2 99999 040.0000 210.0000 0000000 000.0000 129.0000 14.75047655 0 It appears grey roberts, will have an very approx 45 degree sunlit pass of it, after it's launched. The outside is a shiny metal, a good light reflector:) Looks like kapton to me, in one picture. Kevin _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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