is sputnik still orbiting earth?

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:35:00 +0100, Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Heavens-Above says Prospero's maximum brightness is 5.4, so it should be
much easier than Vanguard.

Interesting, thanks for the headsup, I will have to have a go for that one.
We still get (rare) nights when 5&1/2ish is just about poss. with mark1
eyeball.
Although, the few predictions I've just looked at are a lot less than that
at the mo. and antisocial hours !
I wonder if I can get Heavens-Above to search for next date at 5.4 ,,,,,

It didn't find Waxwing tho'

In message , MalcolmP
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:35:00 +0100, Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
Heavens-Above says Prospero's maximum brightness is 5.4, so it should be
much easier than Vanguard.

Interesting, thanks for the headsup, I will have to have a go for that one.
We still get (rare) nights when 5&1/2ish is just about poss. with mark1
eyeball.
Although, the few predictions I've just looked at are a lot less than that
at the mo. and antisocial hours !
I wonder if I can get Heavens-Above to search for next date at 5.4 ,,,,,

It didn't find Waxwing tho'

I only found it by searching for the year, when "Prospero Rocket" turns
up. Waxwing is how it's described in the RAE Handbook.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:59:04 GMT, Hayley wrote:
is sputnik still orbiting us? if so i think it would be nice to bring it
back and put it in a museum.
probably be quite expensive and hard to justify resorce.

There were several Sputniks (Russian for satellite ?not sure)
One of them contained a dog named Laika (in Sputnik 2)
It would have been nice if they had brought her(?) back

'twas in my youth (!) and I never forgave the Ruskies for that, they even
issued a commemorative stamp showing the dog trapped in the satellite
(sadly, I was a stamp collector as well !)

We went out to watch it (and S1) on several occasions
(although, in retrospect, I think it was probably the spent rocket motor(s)
that we saw !)
Silver linings tho', one night of watching and I saw my first aurora !
(Much easier to see them now with internet advance warnings !!

(although, in retrospect, I think it was probably the spent rocket motor

final, orbit injection, motor