International Space Station passing over SOON!

PermaBanned · 10 Aug 2012 at 00:45

StriderX said:
Also the Russians have borked a launch and are now apparently endangering the station.

No, they had a failure to reach orbit. That does not detract from the viability of their program, nor their dedication to their work. It doesn't endanger the station, they have months worth of supplies. The strange thing about it is why there's been so many failures of such a reliable rocket system in such a (relatively) small length of time.

StriderX · 10 Aug 2012 at 00:49

PermaBanned said:
No, they had a failure to reach orbit. That does not detract from the viability of their program, nor their dedication to their work. It doesn't endanger the station, they have months worth of supplies. The strange thing about it is why there's been so many failures of such a reliable rocket system in such a (relatively) small length of time.

This has nothing to do with supplies, it was a satellite launch that had an engine failure (from what i can tell), not all of the fuel was used up so, it is at danger of exploding, making our orbit even worse to navigate.

Plus i don't see how you can take my comment and see it as hostile to the Russian space program, i am merely stating what has occurred, it probable wont do anything and just drop back to the planet, but the chance is real enough.

PermaBanned · 10 Aug 2012 at 00:58

The Proton failure? I was under the impression that the satellites failed to reach orbit at all. Even so, there's no possibility of that endangering the ISS in any way, the reason for which is best explained by one Douglas Adams:

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

StriderX · 10 Aug 2012 at 01:12

PermaBanned said:
The Proton failure? I was under the impression that the satellites failed to reach orbit at all. Even so, there's no possibility of that endangering the ISS in any way, the reason for which is best explained by one Douglas Adams:

No possibility as in 0%?

I am displeased with this, any chance at all is bad and even if tiny, one shouldn't ignore that because of it.

Perhaps i just like to be able to see all the problems on the table first.

TheBigCheese · 10 Aug 2012 at 01:16

PermaBanned said:
I thought we already resolved this last time?

Well thank you for being the GD police...unbelievable.

I posted the thread 45 MINUTES before it was due to pass giving people browsing the forum time to stick their head out of the window.

If they were so interested they can join the main threads, this as with so many other threads on here is just to tell people it's happening.

The fact that so many people took the time to say thanks shows that the thread served it's purpose.

I find it ironic that you are continuing the thread with a debate...please take it to the main thread, the ISS has passed overhead, the thread has done it's job and brightened a lot of peoples evenings.

That's the last I'm going to say on the matter and frankly it didn't need explaining.

Good night.

Evoss · 10 Aug 2012 at 01:30

Its out tomorrow as well (11th August) at 9:10pm and 11:42pm

shoes · 10 Aug 2012 at 09:42

KatanaDV20 said:
Thanks for this, bookmarked that site. Will miss it tonight..stupid street lights

But next time I will drive to a dark place and check it out!!

You'll see it if it's not cloudy.

shoes · 10 Aug 2012 at 09:46

It comes and goes in phases, here is a list of when you can see it from Stafford. Select your own location from the database as appropriate.

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSu...0867&lng=-2.111276&loc=Stafford&alt=75&tz=GMT

The more negative the mag number the brighter it is (-3 is brighter than -1)

moon man · 10 Aug 2012 at 19:15

Will be sitting out again tonight here in st agnes just unlit field and sea on my horizon got my android app to help with star i.d as not too clued up just love watching, blows your mind just trying to understand the meaning of everything........

dunker · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:06

wow that lasted ages

Greg0986 · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:08

Yeah, was a good view. Now to wait till tomorrow

I think it is amazing really, that people are up there in that tiny white dot!

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:18

Whaaaat??? I saw it's orbit path taking it over Paris so decided I wouldn't be able to see it? Would I have been able to see it from Leicestershire?

Greg0986 · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:20

Get a program called Stellarium, press f6 to change the location to your city and then press ctrl+z to enable satellite orbits. It will show you every satellite going over your head at pretty much any point in time

dunker · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:26

smr said:
Whaaaat??? I saw it's orbit path taking it over Paris so decided I wouldn't be able to see it? Would I have been able to see it from Leicestershire?

but it's soooo high up.

dunker · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:28

looking at that tracking site, it's coming over again at 23:35 here on the island.

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:35

dunker said:
but it's soooo high up.

yes, granted, but then I still might not be able to see it from here...

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:37

Greg0986 said:
Get a program called Stellarium, press f6 to change the location to your city and then press ctrl+z to enable satellite orbits. It will show you every satellite going over your head at pretty much any point in time

32bit only ?

Spenty · 10 Aug 2012 at 22:39

Yeah checked that site and it says 23:30 tonight for me.

touch · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:01

Heads up guys (literally). Meteor shower tonight.
Expected to peak at 90 per hour in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:13

Really is quite incredible how fast it orbits the Earth... it's just in over the South Pacific at the moment coming up to South America and in 15 minutes it will be flying over the UK... it took me 10 hours on a 737 to fly from Birmingham to Boston in America. Heh.