[PPRAANet] Fwd: FW: Visible Pass of ISS - COS - 3 & 5 May 05 PM

Tue May 3 16:06:45 EDT 2005

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Here's some information on two passes that the International Space
> Station will make over Colorado Springs tonight and Thursday evening.
> The text below mentions two PowerPoint slides, but because attachments
> cannot be included on the reflector, I cut the tabular data from the
> slides and pasted it below.  I hope that the formatting doesn't get too
> disrupted!
> 
> 73
> Al
> VO1NO / W0
> 
> Subject: Visible Pass of ISS - COS - 3 & 5 May 05 PM
> 
> 
> The International Space Station will make a visible pass over the
> Colorado Springs area on Tuesday evening, 3 May 2005, just after sunset,
> and again on the evening of 5 May 05.  Viewing times are accurate for a
> radius of about 50 miles.  See the attached PowerPoint slide for
> details.  There are two slides in the file.
> 
> The ISS passes within view of Colorado Springs occur frequently but most
> passes are in the middle of the night when the ISS is in the Earth's
> shadow or during the day when the sky is too bright.  Visible passes
> occur when the ground observer is in darkness yet the satellite is
> illuminated by the sun.  This occurs if the satellite passes within view
> just before sunrise or just after sunset.  Most visible passes are low
> on the horizon and, therefore, difficult to see.  Generally, I only send
> out viewing information for high elevation passes.  This past winter the
> weather was cloudy just about every time there was a high elevation
> pass.
> 
> When a visible pass occurs, the ISS can be seen with the naked eye
> because it is in low earth orbit and it reflects a lot of sunlight
> because it is so large.  Weight: 404,069 pounds.  Habitable Volume:
> 15,000 cubic feet
> Dimensions: Width Across Solar Arrays: 240 feet
> Length: 146 feet from Destiny Lab to Zvezda; (171 feet with a Progress
> docked)
> Height: 90 feet
> 
> The Expedition 11 crew -- Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, 46, and NASA
> Astronaut John Phillips, 54, -- launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
> Kazakhstan at 8:46 p.m. EDT Thursday, 14 April 2005, right on schedule. 
> With this 11th crew of the International Space Station was European
> Space Agency Astronaut Roberto Vittori of Italy. Their Soyuz TMA capsule
> reached orbit a little less than nine minutes after liftoff. 
> 
> Their Soyuz docked with the Space Station at 10:19 p.m. EDT April 16. 
> 
> Expedition 11's Krikalev and Phillips will spend about six months aboard
> the Space Station. Vittori spent almost eight days on the Station
> conducting scientific experiments, and returned to Earth with the
> Expedition 10 crew on 24 April. 
> 
> Highlights of the new Expedition 11 International Space Station crew's
> mission include welcoming the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery on its
> STS-114 mission, currently scheduled for July 2005, the first Shuttle
> flight since the Columbia accident.  Discovery crewmembers will conduct
> three spacewalks at the Station, deliver several tons of equipment and
> supplies and return to Earth with equipment and scientific experiments
> and trash from the Station. 
> 
> They also may see the addition of a third crewmember to the Station this
> summer brought to the Station by Atlantis on the STS-121 mission. Plans
> call for them to do two spacewalks, the first in August from the U.S.
> Airlock Quest in U.S. spacesuits, and the second, in September, in
> Russian spacesuits from the Pirs Airlock. The spacewalkers will continue
> outfitting the Station's exterior and work with scientific experiments. 
> 
> Krikalev is a veteran of five previous spaceflights, including two
> missions to the Russian space station Mir and two Shuttle flights. He
> was a member of the first Station crew, serving aboard a much smaller
> ISS from Nov. 2, 2000, to March 18, 2001. He has spent a year, 5 months
> and 10 days in space. This flight should see him become the world's most
> experienced space traveler. 
> 
> Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, he graduated from what
> is now St. Petersburg Technical University in 1981 and then joined NPO
> Energia, the Russian organization responsible for human spaceflight. He
> was selected as a cosmonaut in 1985. 
> 
> Record or not, just being in space isn't what's important, Krikalev
> says. "The job itself is very interesting for me, being there and being
> able to look back on Earth, to do something challenging." He said he
> probably hasn't paid enough attention to that record. 
> 
> Phillips was born in Fort Belvoir, Va., and considers Scottsdale, Ariz.,
> his home. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1972 and became a Naval
> aviator. After leaving the Navy in 1982, he earned a masters and
> doctorate in geophysics and space physics from the University of
> California in 1984 and 1987. He did postdoctoral work at the Los Alamos
> Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. 
> 
> He was selected as an astronaut in 1996. He was a member of the STS-100
> crew of Endeavour in 2001. On that mission he coordinated two spacewalks
> at the Station to install Canadarm2. 
> 
> Phillips has wanted to return to the Station ever since. "It was a
> wonderful place to be," he said. "The crew was doing a great job; they
> were having a good time." He wanted to stay longer then. Now he'll have
> about six months there. 
> 
> Krikalev and Phillips are the Station's fifth two-person crew. After the
> Columbia accident on Feb. 1, 2003, the ISS Program and the international
> partners determined that because of limitations on supplies the Station
> would be occupied by two crewmembers instead of three until Shuttle
> flights resume. 
>  
> The 11th crew will continue science activities, initially with
> facilities and samples already on the Station, but later with
> experiments scheduled to arrive at the Station aboard Discovery. 
> 
> The science team at the Payload Operations Center at the Marshall Space
> Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will continue to operate some
> experiments without crew input and other experiments are designed to
> function autonomously. 
> 
> Krikalev and Phillips are scheduled to spend about 180 days on the
> Station, returning to Earth in October, a little over a week after the
> arrival of their Expedition 12 successors. 
> 
> If this message was forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe to
> future visible passes of the ISS and the Shuttle, send an e-mail to:
> jefferson.barker at us.army.mil.  Be sure to mention what city you live in
> since I send out visible pass information for many locations around the
> country.
> 
> Jeff Barker
> (ARINC Engineering Services)
> 
> Tuesday 3 May
> Event	Time	Elevation 	Azimuth 	Distance (km)
> Rises above horizon	20:55:24	-0?	223? (SW )	2,144
> Reaches 10? elevation	20:57:25	10?	220? (SW )	1,308
> Maximum elevation		21:00:18	61?	137? (SE )
> 401
> Enters shadow		21:04:16	4?	55? (NE )	1,762
> Drops below 10? elev	21:03:11	10?	58? (ENE)	1,313
> 
> 
> Thursday 5 May
> Event	Time	Elevation 	Azimuth 	Distance (km)
> Rises above horizon	20:13:55	-0?	226? (SW )	2,146
> Reaches 10? elevation	20:15:55	10?	225? (SW )	1,309
> Maximum elevation		20:18:50	74?	137? (SE )
> 366
> Drops below 10? elev	20:21:45	10?	55? (NE )	1,314
> Sets				20:23:45	0?	53? (NE )
> 2,155
> 
> 


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