[GCARC] "don't look up"

[Mike Thompson]

Even if the skies are not clear, I wonder if we would be able to make a 6m contact or get a PSK report off of the ion trail it leaves behind as it burns up.

Maybe not, but sometimes it pays to dream big.

73
KG4JYA
Mike

> On Jan 8, 2023, at 11:28, Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In case not hear of this yet, sometime today, the Earth Radiation Budget
> satellite (ERBS ID 15354) is going to drop out of orbit.  Some of the 5086
> lbs of this spacecraft may make it to the ground, not burning up.
> Anyone have better re-entry time/location reference than this one?
> As of 10 minutes ago, the Aerospace corp published this diagram.
> Yes, there is a re-entry pass during the +/- 6 hour re-entry window passing
> over New Jersey.  If skies are clear, was wondering if we might have chance
> of seeing something.
> https://aerospace.org/reentries/erbs-id-15354
> thanks
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