Cosmos 2377 is going to be lauched today. On this saturday nasa is going to place two satellites in orbit. What interesting is that a satellite called EO-1 is going to placed in a orbit, so that it follows landsat 7 by 1 minute. How far apart would they be to be, so EO-1 follows landsat 7 by 1 minute. On the space.com site The two spacecraft will be within 2 miles (3 kilometers) of each other, said Dale Schulz, Goddard Space Flight Center's EO-1 project manager. "We want to be able to trail Landsat, to stay precisely one-minute behind Landsat...and view the same piece of the Earth. This will allow imagery to be taken with our three instruments, to make a direct side-by-side comparison with the Landsat images," he said. On a different http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/eo1/eo_im.html the two spacecraft will approximately 270 miles (450 km ) apart. Which I would think is correct. Big geo sat? Anik F1 is going to launched on Nov 20. It will be placed at 107.3 W. When the solar cells are fully deployed, the wings span 132.5 feet. Now that is a big geo sat, wonder how bright it will be? Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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