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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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