3 Aug
2011
3 Aug
'11
7:08 p.m.
After the last pass over the UK here I had a look at the switch on times and found that the last time it switched on, it stayed on.. times I noted were
Power Off: 01:21:53 Power On: 01:23:56 Power Off: 01:24:40 Power On: 01:26:41
According to this it should've either switched off or come out of eclipse by 01:27:21 - it stayed on - so I rolled back my tracking software to 01:27:21 and found that the sat was barely out of eclipse.. right on the fringe. The power saving seems to switch off at the first sign of sun, there isn't a delay.
Just my observations :-)
73
Pete
2i0VAX