Interstellar flight: Intense solar-powered space lasers could someday shine a focused beam on huge lightweight sails, allowing a spacecraft to reach enormous speeds and result in practical interstellar flight. Painting: Michael Carroll, The PlanetarySociety (c)

Solar Sail UK pass times

Assuming that Solar Sail is still in orbit, here are the projected pass times for the UK;

Date, start time, end time
21 Jun 22:20 to 22:31
22 Jun 00:06 to 00:11
22 Jun 23:39 to 23:46
23 Jun 23:13 to 23:21
24 Jun 22:47 to 22:56
25 Jun 22:21 to 22:31
27 Jun 23:16 to 23:21
28 Jun 22:49 to 22:56
29 Jun 22:23 to 22:31
30 Jun 21:57 to 22:06

More info;
http://www.planetary.org/
http://www.heavens-above.com/

You should be able to see the solar sail passing over during the evening.
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/watch/index.html

You will be able to hear the telemetry on 401.5275 and 2250 MHz.

To find out when to watch/listen go to:
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/watch/guide.html

Further info at:
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/

73 Trevor M5AKA

Other recent stories..

Other News Stories

• Get our news headlines for your website - click here
• Submit your news story - click here