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#1 2004-12-25 18:24:03

Palomar
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From: USA
Registered: 2002-05-30
Posts: 9,734

Re: Current ISS Location Tracker

*If you're curious to know where over Earth the ISS is currently flying, http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tr … html]click here.  Also includes info such as altitude, speed, roll, pitch, yaw, air pressure, etc.  I've been looking for a site like this for I don't know how long.  If it's ever been posted previously here at New Mars, I definitely don't remember.  (::edit::  This thing DOES update constantly and in fact moves as you watch!  When I first checked it about 10 minutes ago, it was between Russia and Japan; now it's just over the Queensland area of Australia -- whoops, moved again, now traveling down eastern coast of Australia ).

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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/si … x.html]ISS (and other) sighting opportunities

*A few months ago I thought I saw the ISS in the sky; it was going to be passing over my vicinity around that time.  I pointed my 'scope at the object quickly and managed to track the object manually.  I'm still not sure if it was the ISS; whatever it was, it was devoid of blinking lights ala domestic or private airplanes. 

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*Here's a bit from space.com's Astronotes, which included a link to the links above:

December 24

Scanning the Holiday Sky for Astronauts

Holiday skywatchers hoping to catch more than Santa’s sleigh pass overhead this weekend can look out for the International Space Station (ISS), granted they get up early.

Observers across the U.S. should be able to watch the ISS slowly passing overhead during the pre-dawn hours of various days through New Year’s Day, NASA officials said.

ISS Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao and flight engineer Salizhan Sharipov are currently living aboard the 200-ton space station, which will appear to ground observers as a white pinpoint of light slowly moving slowly across the sky as it orbits 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the Earth at 5 miles per second. The station should be visible over the continental United States and Juneau, Alaska, NASA officials said.

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#2 2004-12-28 22:20:20

GraemeSkinner
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From: Eden Hall, Cumbria
Registered: 2004-02-20
Posts: 563
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Re: Current ISS Location Tracker

http://www.heavens-above.com]I Like This Site
for tracking the ISS and other satellites.

Graeme


There was a young lady named Bright.
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
--Arthur Buller--

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