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 Mar 31 2008, 03:42 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
NASA TV currently showing coverage of the approach of Jules Verne to ISS... pretty pictures...
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Mar 31 2008, 04:28 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Some pretty impressive formation flying going on up there right now...
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Mar 31 2008, 07:06 PM
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QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 31 2008, 04:28 PM)  Some pretty impressive formation flying going on up there right now... Great screengrabs Stu, thanks! I'm kicking myself, I'd made a mental note to sneak a look from work this afternoon. -------------------- --
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Mar 31 2008, 08:18 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
You're welcome. But even better than that, I just saw the real thing! Clear sky tonight here in Kendal, and the two appeared at 9.11 as predicted, Jules Verne in the lead, around magnitude 2 (and quite red, I thought...) followed a few seconds behind by a blazing bright ISS, almost mag -2 I made it, and phosphorous blue-white in binocs. Very, very strange but oddly moving to see those two spacecraft sailing across the sky mere hours after watching them on my screen...
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Apr 1 2008, 03:18 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
We saw them two times last week.
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Apr 1 2008, 06:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 31 2008, 08:18 PM) You're welcome. But even better than that, I just saw the real thing! Well it's a funny old world; after posting last night, I pulled up NASA TV on the off-chance - I was under the impression ATV action would be over by 6pm - but I was just in time to see the nicely dramatic rehearsed "emergency escape" manœuvre. And now you've reminded me that the last time I checked Heavens Above, a week or so ago, there were no passes visible to me for the next few days; but I just checked again, and - lo! Date Mag Start 1 Apr -2.4 21:31:21... (Yes please! ) So that's two more "thanks" to you. Much obliged Stu! -------------------- --
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Apr 3 2008, 12:21 PM
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QUOTE (ilbasso @ Mar 31 2008, 12:09 AM) Judging from the state of the ISS construction in the illustration on that site, the ATV has also traveled back in time several years as it approached the ISS.  Looking at the docking animation on the ATV blog it looks like today's docking will require a time travel manoeuvre into the future (post S6)
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Apr 3 2008, 02:41 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
11m to go...
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Apr 3 2008, 02:44 PM
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Docking coming up in just a few seconds. 7.5 m and closing at 6cm/sec
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Apr 3 2008, 02:46 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Apr 3 2008, 03:02 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
BEAUTIFUL docking... she may not be the prettiest spacecraft ever built, but she flew straight and true...
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Apr 3 2008, 03:32 PM
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Nice docking. I started watching when the ATV and ISS were still in night. From the Zvezda docking port camera, you could only see the docking target and three lights (one flashing) on the ATV, so you had no idea of the scale or distance. My brain was telling me that the two lights to the sides of the docking target were on the perimeter of the vehicle [they were in fact on the front, but you couldn't tell in the pitch black]. Then suddenly the sun came up, and instantly the ATV loomed MUCH larger in the frame than I thought it would be. It was like watching a Klingon warship uncloak!
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Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 4 2008, 12:36 AM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Congratulations to ESA and the Jules Verne team!!!
"This could be the start of something big"... 
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 8 2008, 01:32 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 3 2008, 03:02 PM) BEAUTIFUL docking... she may not be the prettiest spacecraft ever built, but she flew straight and true... I think the ATV looks wonderfull, like something out of Star Wars. |
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Apr 9 2008, 12:43 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yeah, really...she looks pretty sweet to me, workin' that X-wing fighter look!
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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