Subj : Satellite Antenna
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Mon Aug 23 2004 09:27 pm

  Re: Satellite Antenna
  By: Angus Mcleod to Spaceman Spiff on Tue Aug 24 2004 12:36 am

 >   Re: Satellite Antenna
 >   By: Spaceman Spiff to Angus Mcleod on Mon Aug 23 2004 15:20
 > :00
 > 
 >  > The Birds I will be looking at are in a polar orbit, I believe you can ge
 >  > about 4 pictures a day, usable pictures that is from a couple different b
 > 
 > Then they are probably LEO birds with a high Mean Motion, and a low average
 > MAX-EL.  Somethign with a flat circular pattern will probably work well.  Wh
 > they are overhead, the gain through the antenna will be less, but the
 > slant-range will be less as well, shich sort of compensates.
 > 
 > Name a few birds so I can look in my tracking software and see how they beha
 > 
 > 
I track them with this tool:
http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html

Hope I did not make a typo. This will load a small applet that will give you a
star wars style 3D image of the world, with drop down menus that will allow you
to track in real time any satellite you want. Very cool. It's a JAVA applet.
NOAA 12
NOAA 16
NOAA 17
NOAA 11
NOAA 14
NOAA 15

You can select on satellite menu, select view all, under that Types: slect NOAA
the highlight the satellites you want to pin point.

You can grab the globe with your mouse and rotate the planet to view what you
want to see.

there is also a very cool 2 dimensional map called just "J-Track"

http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/JTrack/Spacecraft.html

You can find all these links and tons more off my web page.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/n3jnc

WARNING FOR DIAL UP USERS, my webpage loads fast for broadband users,
it has lots of pictures and stuff, takes about .5 seconds to load with a
basic 3 mega bit downstream cable modem. I couldn't imagine what it might take
using a dial up modem......... if it takes more than a minute...sorry.
I just like lots of pictures and graphics and I like making use of the
Broadband capabilities.

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