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From: Reid Crowe reid.crowe@gmail.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: IKAROS Solar Sail Successfully Deployed To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Received: Friday, June 11, 2010, 6:39 PM Is there anyway to track this?

IKAROS is an interplanetary spacecraft:

http://www.jspec.jaxa.jp/e/activity/ikaros.html

so one would need very good telescope or access to something like NASA's Deep Space Network.

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73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

It is headed to Venus (or there abouts) and it went out of range of my 8 ghz system the other day...pretty neat.

Robert G. Oler

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:39:30 -0500 From: reid.crowe@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: IKAROS Solar Sail Successfully Deployed

Is there anyway to track this?

On 6/11/2010 9:38 AM, B J wrote:

...

http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2010/06/20100611_ikaros_e.html

73s

Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL

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