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Amateur Satellite Tracking of International Space Station

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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2007

This is a clip from a BBC 4 special called The Satellite Story. This clip hilights the efforts by amateur astronomers to track satellites. There is a great sequence of their efforts to track the International Space Station.

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  • @aaopwner they do need fuel, their orbit slowly decays over time and has to be corrected every so often

  • @AAAAkuuuu solar

  • more to the point...what is an American Spy Satellite doing over UK airspace??????

  • bang goes the western alliance! thats billions of defence pounds and dollars down the drain lol

  • I am looking at getting an lx 200 8" for doing the same thing can you advise please any tips welcome?

  • exellent work

  • @AAAAkuuuu depends on the sat.

  • that's what I thought... So the videos I have of craft changing speed and direction couldn't possibly be satellites.

    I'm pretty familiar with the ones in orbit... they move along with the stars but flash colors.

    Check out some of my vids and tell me what you think.

  • Umm...most of them are in GSO...so most of the time the satellites which we use every day move at about the same speed as the earth's rotation.

    As for the other satellites it depends on the velocity of which they are released and the distance in their elliptical orbit from the earth. This is because velocity is dx/dt. However, it mostly depends on the orbit that it follows i.e. GSO/LEO/GEO.

    They do not need propulsion because they are in space and there is no resistive force to slow them down.

  • What kind of propulsion do these satellites have?

    How much fuel?

    what's the average speed?

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