> I didn't keep Ed's TLE, since 51 deg is difficult at my latitude, and ISS orbit "impossible" right now. Did he give predicted future elsets? Actually, I did stuff Ed's TLE into WorldView (which started out largely as a project in 3D simulation, then graduated into an email alert system for ISS lunar & solar transits- http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/transits/matches-1p.txt), but it produced a track apparently identical to the ISS. I didn't try to look at it in the debugger to figure out if it was a problem with the TLE, or a program anomaly (this was the first time I'd tried to use a TLE other than for the ISS). > Right now, last 5 elsets from OIG start: PROGRESS M1-10 1 27823U 03025A 03161.21778569 .00071333 00000-0 26443-3 0 134 2 27823 51.6332 55.5129 0006943 304.0056 206.3883 15.87406827 289 > So the perigee of ISS 385 km, and the apogee of Progress is 314 km, i.e., not in transfer orbit yet, and distance is "meaningless" - becomes 0 in the horizontal direction Wednesday 09:13 UTC. I didn't happen to think that OIG would have the TLE for Progress! However, Progress would surely be in virtually the same orbital plane as the ISS, though with a different (apparently shorter) orbital period until it reaches an optimal point for the rendezvous maneuver. So it seems that when the ISS passes over near me tonight, at around 2:10 UTC, Progress shouldn't be far behind, and with a time lag that decreases every hour. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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