Monday 2 January 2012

ARISSat - Last chance ?




According to the experts ARISSat will re-enter and burnout on 4 January 2012 at 10:00 UTC +/- 18 hours.

That leaves us (South Africans) with 1 possibly 2 more opportunities (passes) that we can capture the images and messages being sent from this satellite. Rather sad in a way?

The image below was captured this morning just after the satellite switched on, 14 minutes (approx) after being illuminated by the sun.

73, Pierre ZS6A


ARISSat 02 Jan 2012 @ 04:50 UTC

2 comments:

  1. Great pic from the sinking bird... I hope that we see more sats in 2012!

    73, Jeff KE9V

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  2. Thanks Jeff,

    Rather sad to know that this satellite that is working so well, is about to go QRT…..

    73, Pierre ZS6A

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