Stardust capsule retun 1/15/2006 - photograph?
From the Ambassador News and related article:
"On January 15, 2006, after more than 7 years in space, the Stardust spacecraft will finally return to Earth with some precious cargo. And it will land in Utah." The "Sample Return Capsule (SRC) will land in the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) within the Great Salt Lake Desert. The SRC will reenter Earth's atmosphere and parachute toward the surface, touching down at approximately 3:15 AM on January 15, 2006." http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/science/feature002.html Wonder if this will present an opportunity to photograph the reentry streak of the capsule, clouds permitting. - Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Canopus56 wrote:
Wonder if this will present an opportunity to photograph the reentry streak of the capsule, clouds permitting.
- Canopus56(Kurt)
I'm in contact with a guy at NASA Ames who will be in a NASA aircraft just south of Wendover to watch the reentry. He has asked that I see if I can find anyone interested in imaging the reentry from the ground around Elko, Wells and/or Wendover (the reentry will probably be too low to be seen from SLC). I put a message to that effect in News but only had 4 takers. But if there are more out there, please let me know. Clear skies! Patrick -- Patrick Wiggins NASA Solar System Ambassador to Utah http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/ paw@trilobyte.net 435.882.1209
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
He has asked that I see if I can find anyone interested in imaging the reentry from the ground around Elko, Wells and/or Wendover (the reentry will probably be too low to be seen from SLC). I put a message to that effect in News but only had 4 takers.
4 takers is pretty good for driving out into the backside of the middle of nowhere at 3:00am in the middle of winter with overnight lows in the 20s. Sure, count me in. With the Genesis landing in Sept 2004, NASA posted some 3-D orbital landing schematics for Oregon to Utah that were helpful. They showed the az & alt in miles overlaid with a general map of the Utah west desert test range. If there is anything similar that would be helpful. I seem to recall there were some good dark spots on the highway out of Wendover going south towards Elko. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Canopus56 wrote:
Sure, count me in. With the Genesis landing in Sept 2004, NASA posted some 3-D orbital landing schematics for Oregon to Utah that were helpful. They showed the az & alt in miles overlaid with a general map of the Utah west desert test range. If there is anything similar that would be helpful.
The NASA guy is going to generate charts showing time, altitude and azimuth as seen from Elko, Wells, Wendover, SPOC and SLC. He figures that while it should still be as bright as Venus as seen from SLC, it will be so low in the sky that the mountains will block the view. Even though it _may_ be visible from SPOC I'm headed for Wendover because I want to hear the reentry as well and see (and image) it. Patrick
--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip> Patrick wrote in the Ambassador News:
NASA Stardust Briefing Tomorrow NASA will brief news media at 11 a.m. MST tomorrow about the return to Utah of the Stardust capsule.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/dec/HQ_M05195_Comet.html Patrick, I'm watching the Stardust conference. The landing video track on shows it going into the South Utah Test and Training Range. It looks like either the Utah Tree turnout on I-15 would be a good photo site on 1/14 & 1/15, or if that is fogged out, White Horse Pass (alt. 6031) on Utah 93A south of Wendover. - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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