Re: wrong progress

From: Robert Holdsworth (robbonz1@xtra.co.nz)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 17:06:56 EDT

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    NASA's original announce which is still there on their spaceflight website
    was that Progress M1-10 (or Progress 11 as they like to call it- see earlier
    posts on that topic) was to de-orbit later in the Pacific.  It gave no
    indication of this "later" being a month!
    
    Being located in the South Pacific and in the path of ISS  for some passes
    this had me on high alert till I received the update from HSF news digest.
    (I also alerted a friend in Belgium who had much better passes than myself.)
    
    According to the digest released after undocking "Russian flight controllers
    will conduct several scientific experiments with the Progress, using its
    television cameras to capture imagery of sites of ecological interest to
    Russian researchers while maintaining a safe distance away from the
    Station."
    
    Was this a last minute change of plan, or just not mentioned on NASA's
    website?
    
    And will they use it to practice taking pictures of another craft ready for
    shuttle safety procedures I wonder?
    
    Robert Holdsworth
    Wainuiomata
    41.2610°S, 174.9470°E
    
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com>
    To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:53 PM
    Subject: wrong progress
    
    
    > Here's the correct orbit for the progress spacecraft. So forget the
    progress in my last message
    >
    > ISS (ZARYA)
    > 1 25544U 98067A   03248.20945535  .00017846  00000-0  20562-3 0  4528
    > 2 25544  51.6337 337.2687 0006222 207.2314 254.2261 15.62025083273505
    > PROGRESS-M1 10
    > 1 27823U 03025A   03248.39862325 -.00051185  00000-0 -40477-3 0   782
    > 2 27823  51.6315 336.2899 0037890 211.3641 247.1255 15.69508210 13894
    >
    >
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