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Space Shuttle Sightings

The shuttle Endeavor is in the early stages of a 16 day mission to the International Space Station.  The station itself is getting much bigger with each trip, and that, along with the shuttle can be spotted as they move across our nighttime sky.

This website, http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_States&region=New_York will allow you to pick from a list of select NY cities to see when the ISS or Shuttle will be visible.  I see a listing for ATV.  Not sure what that is.  Will have to look it up.

Clear skies and look up!

Dave
Published Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:36 PM by dlongley

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jason said:

Here ya go Dave...from wiki:

An Automated Transfer Vehicle or ATV is an unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency (ESA).[1] ATVs are designed to supply the International Space Station (ISS) with propellant, water, air, payload and experiments. In addition, ATVs can re-boost the station into a higher orbit.

The first ATV, Jules Verne, was launched March 9, 2008 by an Ariane 5 from Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 04:03 UTC (01:03 local).[2] It will perform tests in orbit and then wait for Space Shuttle Endeavour to depart before automatically docking on April 3 to Zvezda, a Russian component of the station.[3] €1.3 billion EUR (£990 million GBP, $2 billion USD) was spent by the ESA on the ATV programme.[4]
March 12, 2008 3:38 PM
 

dlongley said:

Cool Jason, thanks for the info!

Dave
March 12, 2008 6:04 PM
 

jonfal said:

Another great site for viewing the current position of the ISS as well as sighting times and maps for your location is http://www.heavens-above.com/ It also has information on other man made objects and info on planets, sky maps based on time and date, etc.
March 12, 2008 6:31 PM
 

Doug KC2PCR said:

Watch the space station, EVA's(spacewalks), Shuttle activities and practically all the ground to station communications at NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Another great spot to get tracking info along with other info is www.issfanclub.com.
A free software called Orbitron allows you to track the ISS along with tracking of many other satellites. http://www.stoff.pl/
73's
Doug
KC2PCR
March 14, 2008 7:21 AM
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