Re: Double Iridium Flares at the South Pole

From: Gerhard HOLTKAMP (grd.holtkamp@t-online.de)
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 16:41:23 EDT

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    Ed Cannon wrote concerning the Iridium double flares at the South Pole:
    
    >I just made an Iridflar run for May 14-16 (three days,
    >inclusive) for the South Pole, using -90 latitude, 
    >longitude 0 (zero), and 3500 meters for its altitude.  
    >I got more than 1000 flare predictions brighter than -1.  
    >Many (if not most, if not all) of them are double flares, 
    >with a right MMA flare being followed seconds later by a 
    >solar panel flare (which Iridflar will predict if desired.)  
    
    How many seconds after the MMA flare did Iridflar predict the solar panel 
    flare?
    
    The only information I found about the Iridium solar panels  is that they can 
    be rotated about one direction (up to now I had assumed that they are either 
    fixed or that they point straight toward the sun - this seems to be wrong). I 
    would assume that the solar panels can be rotated about the direction of 
    flight. Is this correct? Does anybody have some more accurate information 
    about the alignment and movements of the Iridium solar arrays (or where to 
    find this information)?
    
    Gerhard HOLTKAMP
    Darmstadt, Germany.
    
    
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