In the spirit of the previous Chicken Little contests my re-entry prediction for ANDE is:
December 22, 2007 1935z.
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henk, PA3GUO" hamoen@iae.nl To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:59 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] ANDE ramping down: now almost at 200km
ANDE is now at ~202 km height.
On my website I updated the plotted height, and its perfectly following the shape of the predictions. Yet, a few dates behind.
http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/hamoen/pa3guo/ande_predict_pa3guo_18dec2007...
From the graph I expect Dec 24 or so as the last day
(based on the fact that RAFT last day was when it had reached 175 km).
Also today QSOs have been made. I see DD6UBW and OK1DNT for example.
Henk, PA3GUO http://www.qsl.net/pa3guo (my satellite weblog) http://www.ande-deorbit.com (the AWARD site, have a look for the details) http://web.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-ops.html (Bob's official website)
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