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¿WHAT ANTENNA I CAN MAKE ME TO SPEAK WITH The ISS And WHAT DOES NOT
HAVE PROBLEMS WITH The POLARITY, SINCE WITH The ARROW AFFLUENT WORK
The OSCAR, BUT WITH The ISS With Himself NOT TO ENTER The TRASPONDER?

Totally new to this. Want to find a site, page whatever, that gives me the dates and times for upcoming events e.g. orbit re-boosts, swapping of the soyuz tma 12 to its new docking module etc. Anyone help?

Also, can't find an update on Peggy. Is this whole "not seen on camera thing" just people being old women?

On the NASA site there is an aid to finding the ISS as it goes over in the night sky. It has both tabular data and a sky picture called SkyWatch which shows a visual of the track of the ISS across the sky. (BTW SkyWatch is gotten by clicking on SkyTrack.) Of course this is old news to folks here.

I was going to explain it to my sister, but I am puzzled by one aspect of SkyWatch. When I am out looking at the sky, searching for the ISS I am remembering that the track drawn on the SkyWatch visual has two (sometimes 3) parts. One part is called acquisition and one is called sighting.

What in tarnation is the difference? When, where, what should my eyes be looking for? The acquisition track is in red and the sighting track is in yellow, but I'm really quite certain the ISS doesn't change colors from red to yellow to red as it flies over.

Here all info from ESA news WEB about the next docking of ATV-1 to ISS.
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Three steps to ATV docking
"The spacecraft is functioning perfectly, the team is very well trained and we are looking forward to an excellent first docking attempt on 3 April. It will be complex, but after our successful launch and early orbit phase, and the transfer to the parking orbit, the entire team here on the ground has gained a lot of confidence in themselves and in Jules Verne," says Alberto Novelli, ESA's Mission Director at the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC) in Toulouse, France.

Hello ,
I'm new to this site.I'm only 15 years old.I wish to know if I can downlink Tv video from ISS using a yagi and a converter circuit .Is the transmission digital?
If yes then is there any method to decode and view it?

73's
Jishnu

Why is the shuttle dock shaped off center?

What is the function/purpose of the black and white bulls eyes stuck all over the outside of some modules?

I suppose this is not something you can find a technical quote for. In fact I kind of hope it isn't.

What does it actually sound like inside, let's say, Destiny?

No decibel levels allowed! Does it sound like a large office? Inside a car on the interstate? Waiting at the tracks while a train goes by (windows open/windows closed)? Starship Voyager? In front of an air conditioner? In bed with earplugs in? By a white noise sleep machine? ???

Somebody ask Peggy!

Hi, this is my first time on. I have a question.

Who directs the broadcasts of mission operations when the shuttle is docked with the ISS? Are these people reachable? I've watched some of the operations during various activities (EVA's, inside installation, ingress, egress, etc.) and have found that during some of the most interesting operations the camera controller switches to some view of absolutely nothing happening, like outside watching the end of a solar array with endless clouds in the backgrouns or some black shot with a huge bright light motionless in the center of the screen, etc., etc. Do these people need some donations of nodoze?

I am trying to find out when hams are on the shuttle / space station ? Have been told Mike is an active in QSO's anyone know when he will be on missions ?