At 02:19 PM 11/19/2010, Andy MacAllister wrote:
New HAMSATS could go up This Evening!
Check the specs, check the launch status, and watch it. Start here http://fastrac.ae.utexas.edu/index.php
73 de Andy W5ACM
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We missed seeing the contrail from the launch, though we were going to try to see it here about 170 miles north of Kodiak. Nice set of photos of the launch vehicle and the satellites on this website.
I was busy finishing up a day outside repairing the base structure of my 16-foot dish that suffered wind damage early in the week. I got the dish temp. propped with 4x4 timbers and removed the angle-iron from both sides of the mount. I was in the midst of feeding my six sled dogs at launch time. Pretty tiring working in 15F wx outside. Tomorrow, I will install 2-1/2 x 2-1/2 square tubing to replace the bent 3-inch angle-iron. Wind gusts to 50mph resulted in 2500 lbs of wind force on the dish.
There were pictures of the contrail on TV news tonight taken from Homer, AK about 70-miles closer to Kodiak. Skies were perfectly clear.
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