Probably not. It appears to have been knocked down about 2 km on 2005-04- 10 and fallen by atmospheric drag since then. It's period now makes it overtake the operational ones by about 50 sec/day. If it can'be controlled in position, it makes little sense to maintain the correct attitude, even if it is still possible. Tomorrow, it is abot two minutes behind Ir10, so it does produce a flare at almost the same celestial coordinates, but at mag -1. I don't see a similar flash from Ir86 until June 08, and then only at mag 0.3 Good luck with Ir10! >is Iridium 16 ( I know it's deorbited). I've read it was replaced by Iriidum >86. Is the Iridium 86 going to produce the flare predicted to Iridium 16? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 02 2005 - 09:48:42 EDT