Allen Thomson wrote:
A rather lengthy status report is at
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0503/02observing/
Note comments by Jonathan McDowell and Tom Kelso.


A good report. It seems pretty clear to me that
if the U.S. Air Force stops providing TLEs,
others, probably non-U.S. others, will provide
them.

Heavens-Above.com is terrific, BTW. After watching
part of Peter Jenning's UFO show, I asked my sons
if they wanted to see a real "UFO". We looked up
at the sky at the apointed time and place, as
directed by Heavens-Above, and watched a nice,
bright Iriduim flash - the light in the sky earily
appearing, growing seriously bright, then dimming
and disappearing - all in a manner of seconds.
Their reaction, knowing that very few, if any,
others of the millions around us had seen what we
had seen: "COOOOOOOOOOOL!"

It would be a real shame to lose this kind of
neato inspiration-type stuff for kids.

- Ed Kyle