Jeff -
When I was listening to the Shuttle STS-119 audio feed last night - March 16 (just before Midnight - Chicago time). The Shuttle performed a burn to "catch up" with the ISS.
The shuttle appeared to be about 20 minutes behind the ISS on the visible pass here last night -- before the burn.
w9gb ==== Message: 11 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:34:07 -0700 From: "Jeff Yanko" wb3jfs@cox.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Did ISS perform maneuver burn? To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: D48CA16E64E44DD186DE36455EFF8ECE@QUECREEK Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
Hi all!
Did the ISS perform a maneuver burn to avoid a possible collision with space junk? The reason I ask is during the 0841z to 0850z pass I started to receive the downlink about 08:39:30. About 1.5 minutes before the AOS was to occur. I'm using 1 week old keps and the previous night pass was right on schedule.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS DM26