Looks like she is headed down hill a bit faster now. I show her at 215 km. That is down 5 km more from your posting just about 24 hours ago
Kenneth - N5VHO
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henk, PA3GUO Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] ANDE now @220km
As I am not so much into maths on this topic, the only thing I do is plot the current heigth of ANDE in the graph: http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/hamoen/pa3guo/ande_predict_pa3guo_12dec 2007.jpg
One might conclude from this that from 220km to de-orbit the graph shows ~12 days, so de-orbit today + ~12 days = ~24 Dec. ... BUT: if for any reason ANDE comes down faster we're almost there !
There is a good bunch of activity these days; many stations Igate the packets, many stations make contacts via ANDE in these final days.
And: have a look at http://www.ande-deorbit.com for details on the AWARD
Henk, PA3GUO http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo
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