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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/2UI4GAMSKZMR7HGK23M7UZRLFXUNZ7VI/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "2UI4GAMSKZMR7HGK23M7UZRLFXUNZ7VI", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/V3CEQODDPTNLWMYMA5IJQUMGSXADW22E/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "samudra.haque (a) gmail.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Samudra Haque", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Can we get them to fix AO-40 first then?", "date": "2009-10-15T02:08:22Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WJX3SPJSWJM4JZHCOQKFECT7EX3AQJM5/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/BFXPLG62SWBHYYKC226AWZ5Y3IVBQ62J/?format=api", "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/XMOWBE4BDE54GPGUNDA4GJFRGQHQHODA/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Has there been any serious attempt to take a photograph of the damaged\nbird using ground based optical telescopes while it is in sunlight ?\nWith modern telescopes such as\nhttp://www.refractortelescopes.co.uk/reviews/orion/orion-shorttube-80-a-refractor-telescope/\nor similiar and a modern digital camera and a known RA/DEC co-ordinate\nof the satellite at any point in its orbit, it should be possible get\na fairly decent picture of what is still up there...\n\nNote RA / DEC are astronomy co-ordinates which should be able to be\ncalculated from AZ/EL or TLE, but I may not be able to do it myself.\n\nWe don't need to track it, but just to image it in several consecutive\nframes. From: http://www.emergentspace.com/pubs/AIAA_GNC_2002_AMSAT_A040.pdf\n\nTable 1. Nominal Orbit Parameters for AO-40\nOrbit Parameter Value\nSemimajor Axis (km) 36,245\nPerigee Height (km) 1,042\nApogee Height (km) 58,691\nEccentricity 0.797\nInclination (deg) 6.04\nPeriod (hours) 19.1\n\n\nOn Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Rocky Jones <[email protected]> wrote:\n>\n> I think both those things are accurate.\n>\n> Robert WB5MZO\n>\n>> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:31:30 -0400\n>> From: [email protected]\n>> To: [email protected]\n>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Can we get them to fix AO-40 first then?\n>>\n>> I guess I need to go back and read the archives because what I remember\n>> reading didn't give me any hope AO-40 would ever be back. Wasn't there\n>> something about that they believed the spacecraft was leaking corrosive\n>> fuel? Doesn't sound to conducive to any type of recovery of anything\n>> where electronics are involved.. I also thought there was talk of a\n>> \"catastrophic explosion\".\n>> Michael, W4HIJ\n>> _______________________________________________\n>> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n> _________________________________________________________________\n> Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft.\n> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/\n> _______________________________________________\n> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program!\n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>\n", "attachments": [] }