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KMS 3-2 Real Time Satellite Tracking
REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING ^
| 3/28/2013
Posted on 03/28/2013 9:49:44 PM PDT by Selene
Is anyone else looking at this?
I see it has slowly been losing altitude over the last few hours. Was 365mi, now 312.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
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posted on
03/28/2013 9:49:44 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: Selene
Another victim of sequester....bailout! bailout!
maybe itll land on north korea.
:)
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posted on
03/28/2013 9:58:54 PM PDT
by
Therapsid
(Communism has killed 50-60 Million people in only 50 yrs.)
To: Selene
Perhaps you could tell us which “this” we’re supposed to be concerned about?
Space Station (ISS), NKorea Sat, other?
The link doesn’t help me understand that.....
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posted on
03/28/2013 9:59:55 PM PDT
by
G Larry
(Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
To: Therapsid
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:00:04 PM PDT
by
Therapsid
(Communism has killed 50-60 Million people in only 50 yrs.)
To: Therapsid
It’s a North Korean satellite. It will be directly over the US the next 4 nights.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:03:34 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: Selene
You’re not just seeing an eccentric orbit varying in altitude?
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:06:40 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: G Larry
Look at the box on the right.
I see the altitude has gone back up to 348mi now.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:07:25 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: Selene
You do realize that the world isn't actually round, right? It is now 348 miles over the ground as it transits the pole, and then it will ‛drop‛ down again as it approaches the equator, and then go up again over the north pole.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:09:13 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Selene
It’s a North Korean satellite. It will be directly over the US the next 4 nights. Not if it's losing 53 miles of altitude a day, it won't. That thing is gonna burn up over somebody's country pretty damn quick.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:09:41 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Selene
Last few hours or during a 50 minute period? The perigee is 504.2 km/313 miles and the apogee is 585.9 /364 miles. It will hit both in its 95 minute orbit.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:16:44 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
To: Windflier; All
Why is KMS 3-2 orbiting East to West? I thought most satellites went West to East and that to launch one East to West took much more energy.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:17:15 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution togethe her as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: kingu
Ok, thanks for the info. I have not been looking at it long enough to know what normal should be.
It was right over my location a while ago.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:19:55 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: kingu
"then it will ‛drop‛ down again as it approaches the equator"
It just went over the equator and did not loose altitude. Now 361mi.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:34:47 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: prisoner6
Why is KMS 3-2 orbiting East to West? I thought most satellites went West to East and that to launch one East to West took much more energy. If that's all true, it's as bizarre as anything else about North Korea.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:41:11 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Selene
Great handle.
The orbit is elliptical, and technically retrograde, essentially polar.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:43:33 PM PDT
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: Windflier
Actually it is in a polar orbit and the earth is moving to the east underneath the orbit.
To: feedback doctor
Over Alaska now altitude 344mi.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:52:07 PM PDT
by
Selene
To: feedback doctor
Actually it is in a polar orbit and the earth is moving to the east underneath the orbit. Thank you. That explains it.
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posted on
03/28/2013 10:57:01 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Selene
Great site. Thanks for the post. Keep us informed.
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posted on
03/29/2013 4:48:54 AM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Off the NC coast at 313 miles Alt
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posted on
03/29/2013 7:10:18 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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