[amsat-bb] AO-40 Attitude

[Peter Guelzow <peter.guelzow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

Magnetorquing on AO-40 is again in progress.

The following table from W4SM shows the history and plans for
the next couple of orbits..


      |       OBSERVED                  |         PREDICTED
ORBIT|  RPM    ALON   ALAT   SA#   SA* |  RPM    ALON   ALAT    SA
-----+------+------+------+------+-----+------+------=+-------+----
454  | 5.78 |  353 |  2.1 |  255 |  2  |(camera) ---  | ----  | --
455  | 5.75 |  351 |  2.1 |  253 |  1  | 5.72 | 352.5 |  2.7  | 2.4
456  | 5.47 |  351 |  2   |  253 |  1  | 5.69 | 352.8 |  2.7  | 2.0
457  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.74 | 354.6 |  2.5  | 3.2
458  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.77 | 357.0 |  2.0  | 5.0
459  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.76 | 358.7 |  1.6  | 6.0
460  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.68 | 359.2 |  1.5  | 6.0
461  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.65 | 359.4 |  1.5  | 5.5
462  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.63 |   1.1 |  1.5  | 6.4
463  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.60 |   2.9 |  1.2  | 7.6
464  |      |      |      |      |     | 5.55 |   3.2 |  0.8  | 7.4


73s Peter, DB2OS


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