Last night from the driveway of his house Mike McCants, his wife, two of their sons, and I watched ISS -- about as bright as Venus (?), followed by the new Progress (PROGRESS M1-9, 27531, 02045A, according to US SpaceCom), about +2.5 (?). I didn't get a time on their separation. A while ago I heard from my mother that my sister wanted to know what that was following ISS last night. Our ISS culmination on that pass was at about 0:50:20 September 28 UTC. On the subject of Progresses, the previous one will continue in orbit for several more days. A SpaceflightNow story explains: "Russian flight controllers have put the old Progress 8P into an orbit away from the station. It undocked from the aft port of the Zvezda service module at 1359 GMT (9:59 a.m. EDT) Tuesday after a three-month stay, clearing the port for the arrival of Progress 9P. "The 8P freighter will remain in space for a couple weeks, using its onboard cameras to observe smog and smoke over northeastern Russia. Once the test is completed, the Progress will be deorbited...." http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0209/25progress/ Here's a current elset on the previous one: PROGRESS-M 46 1 27454U 02033A 02271.64876157 .00034513 00000-0 31984-3 0 1093 2 27454 51.6365 253.3517 0036822 272.6072 60.5285 15.66263343 14733 Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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