I found this nice video of the deployment of this sat by Sally: http://www1.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sage2-25.html Ralf ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralf Vandebergh To: seesat-l@satobs.org Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 2:32 PM Subject: Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)_high res OBS_Aug 24 subject: Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)_high res OBS_Aug 24 ____________________________________________________________________ http://tinyurl.com/2fqy226 -Earth Radiation Budget Satellite -Study of Earth's radiation budget and stratospheric aerosol gases. This satellite can be seen as a heritage of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was deployed in 1984 during mission STS-41-G by Sally Ride, well-known as the first American woman in space, just one year earlier. The satellite used an own Orbit Adjust Propulsion System (OAPS) to move to its operating orbit after deployment from the Shuttle. Originally intended to have a 2-year operational live, it finally just retired in 2005 for butgetary reasons. Earlier attempts to photograph the satellite during a series of morning-passes in June, failed to resolve more then a small speck. It seems to be a hard object in less then optimal passes, even at considerable imagingscales. The latest attempt on August 24 during a favorable almost 80 degrees evening-pass succeeded to capture a well-defined shape. The images can be interpreted to show a body and solar panels seen from a certain observingangle as most frames show comparable structure. Presented are 2 of the best ones. Exact interpretation however is difficult to determine. ________________ Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100902/d4d88de5/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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