Speaking of decay, DK3WN lists 2021-10-31 as the estimated decay date for NO-84.
Originally, it was expected to have a 3 year life if I remember right. It will apparently make it nearly 6.5.
http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?page_id=43437
73,
Paul, N8HM
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Zach Metzinger [email protected] Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 14:10 Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] NO-84 Digipeater Online To: [email protected]
On 02/17/19 13:00, Joe wrote:
OK was scared for a bit there was gonna try to get some locals interested.
I would think that, in general, you should always enjoy all the satellites while they last. Never know when TID or a component failure will take one of them out. Additionally, they're LEO, so atmospheric drag is slowly, but steadily, bringing them back to Earth.
"Work 'em while you can." applies in any case. :-)
--- Zach N0ZGO
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