This table gives some of the characteristics of the NOAA satellite passes through our station, during the next 24 hour period. Apart from the obvious significance of the first four elements in the table, the fifth one indicates whether it is an ascending pass (a) or a descending one (d).
This data is output by "nescap", a program that we wrote, which stands for "Near Earth Satellite Calculations and Predictions". This program is not a satellite tracking program, but rather an orbit prediction program, as its name implies, and can be used to give much more information than what is shown here. This page will contain information for downloading and using the program.
This table is updated every hour.
| Satellite | Start Date/Time | Duration (minutes) |
Max. elev. (degrees) |
Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA 17 | 2009/01/07 13:30:37 | 3.8 | 0.8 | d |
| NOAA 17 | 2009/01/07 15:05:06 | 15.2 | 65.2 | d |
| NOAA 17 | 2009/01/07 16:46:45 | 10.5 | 8.6 | d |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/07 19:25:35 | 10.0 | 7.5 | a |
| NOAA 12 | 2009/01/07 19:54:54 | 11.0 | 9.8 | a |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/07 21:02:13 | 15.2 | 72.3 | a |
| NOAA 12 | 2009/01/07 21:32:04 | 15.1 | 58.3 | a |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/07 22:47:08 | 5.6 | 1.8 | a |
| NOAA 17 | 2009/01/08 02:14:04 | 14.4 | 31.1 | a |
| NOAA 17 | 2009/01/08 03:54:20 | 13.4 | 19.2 | a |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/08 07:52:31 | 10.4 | 8.0 | d |
| NOAA 12 | 2009/01/08 08:21:09 | 11.3 | 10.3 | d |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/08 09:30:09 | 15.0 | 63.1 | d |
| NOAA 12 | 2009/01/08 09:59:06 | 14.9 | 52.7 | d |
| NOAA 15 | 2009/01/08 11:14:13 | 4.9 | 1.4 | d |