Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Keep track of your favourite orbiting objects

This is the invitation at J-TRACK, a NASA website that enables you to tell where a particular satellite or spacecraft is at this moment in time. I discovered it when reading about the spacesuit that was filled with rubbish of various sorts, plus a transmitter, and which was put into space from the International Space Station. People who heard the broadcast were invited to let NASA know (and you can see where they were by visiting http://www.suitsat.org/).

That suit has now burnt up in the atmosphere, but there are plenty of other things to track, including weather satellites and satellites that search for rescue and emergency beacons.

Visit J-TRACK at http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/jtrack/

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