Fellow Seesaters, The IMAGE spacecraft has just been put into orbit. Its has experimemts to "image" the magnetosphere ffrom its 1000Km by 46000Km polar orbit. The perigee is intially at 40S, and will migrate to 90S in ayears time. What might make it visually interesting is that one experiment, a 3Khz-3Mhz radio transmitter, has 4 radial 250m antennae, (ony 0.3mm diameter though). Wonder how much sunglint off them?. The Spin axis is perpindicular to orbit, and the long antennae will hence be in the orbital plane. Spin period 30 seconds. THE from Alan Pickup's select file. Tony Beresford IMAGE 46119 x 995 km 1 26113U 0017A 00085.89910757 -.00000037 00000-0 00000-0 0 15 2 26113 89.9345 192.8314 7536918 319.9694 3.7356 1.67638907 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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