On mar 27, a dnepr rocket will place a few sat's into orbit, including 3 cube sat's on a 1 km long tether. The tether is part of the MAST experiment http://www.tethers.com/Missions.html It's going into a sun sync orbit. Be interesting to see how bright the tether will appear. Predicted orbits for 3 other cubesat's at http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/pages/missions/dnepr-launch-2.php A 1 99991U xxxxxxxx 07086.29310451 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00006 2 99991 098.0870 161.6633 0071000 198.4663 339.8290 14.52700000000016 B 1 99992U xxxxxxxx 07086.29311609 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00003 2 99992 098.0870 161.6633 0084000 198.3918 339.9240 14.51600000000017 C 1 99993U xxxxxxxx 07086.29312766 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00009 2 99993 098.0870 161.6633 0090000 199.4051 339.9000 14.50500000000017 Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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