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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #800 on: 09/07/2017 10:20 pm »
It looks like orbit decay been accelerated a bit in last few wks...
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #801 on: 09/08/2017 07:23 pm »
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Do not believe we are seeing anything unusual it is what  would be pretty much expected as Tiangong 1 interacts with the Earth tenuous upper Atmosphere causing more drag on the Space Station. With the significant increase in Solar activity over the last month would not be surprise to see this increase in decay become a little steeper.  Even if it was losing 30 Kilometers a month you still are looking at a decay some where in the mid- January to mid February of 2018. We do have several high passes in the next  few week will once again take a look to monitor for signs of the space station starting to tumble.
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LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #802 on: 09/08/2017 07:51 pm »
titusou
Do not believe we are seeing anything unusual it is what  would be pretty much expected as Tiangong 1 interacts with the Earth tenuous upper Atmosphere causing more drag on the Space Station. With the significant increase in Solar activity over the last month would not be surprise to see this increase in decay become a little steeper.  Even if it was losing 30 Kilometers a month you still are looking at a decay some where in the mid- January to mid February of 2018. We do have several high passes in the next  few week will once again take a look to monitor for signs of the space station starting to tumble.
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Thomas

I think with the level of solar activity your prediction could be seen as something of a hostage of fortune.
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #803 on: 09/08/2017 11:31 pm »
Star One
Look at the graph you are looking at best a 6 Kilometer drop since the middle of August. We were projecting on a 30 Kilometer drop every month out to next year. We are still looking at a  reentry time next year some where in the first three months 2018. One exception here to the prediction is if Tiangong 1  starts to tumble then we have a whole new ball game that is why we are doing as many observation of high passes of Tiangong 1 looking to see if it starts to go into a tumble!  Also Solar active is going to have to kick into high gear over the next five month to change this drastically which we are now in a declining Solar cycle. Just because we see a little increase in Solar activity doesn't mean we will see this continue for five or six months down the road.
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #804 on: 09/08/2017 11:49 pm »
Star One
Look at the graph you are looking at best a 6 Kilometer drop since the middle of August. We were projecting on a 30 Kilometer drop every month out to next year. We are still looking at a  reentry time next year some where in the first three months 2018. One exception here to the prediction is if Tiangong 1  starts to tumble then we have a whole new ball game that is why we are doing as many observation of high passes of Tiangong 1 looking to see if it starts to go into a tumble!  Also Solar active is going to have to kick into high gear over the next five month to change this drastically which we are now in a declining Solar cycle. Just because we see a little increase in Solar activity doesn't mean we will see this continue for five or six months down the road.
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Thomas

To play devils advocate it also doesn't mean that we will not see this greater activity continue. The problem with all these cycles we impose on the Sun is we just haven't been studying it long enough to see the longer cycles. I've seen this argued by those far wiser in such things than me.

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #805 on: 09/09/2017 01:30 am »
Even specialists in the field of estimating orbital decays admit that it is more of an art than an exact science!
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #806 on: 09/09/2017 02:03 am »
Let's throw another fly in the ointment! The 22 year solar magnetic cycle and the effects on Earth's atmosphere.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/144/1/6
Rarely do you hear any one talk about this cycle and it's effects.
Still been observing and tracking satellites for five decades, our first satellite being Echo II, if we are wrong on our prediction will be more than willing to eat our whole heaping helping of cold crow  barring as we have caveat that we do not see Tiangong -1 start tumbling and it remains in a roll until reentry interface.
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #807 on: 09/10/2017 09:14 am »
I tried to overlay 37820 (shallow line) meaning height over to 41477 (steep line). Attached image is what I got.

37820 = Tiangong1, image is compress vertically to get the same meaning height grid with 41477
41477 = Nodes2 cubesat launch from ISS (somehow but Heavns-Above.com wrote it as Nodes1)

I know there are alot of variables will affect orbit decay, but a simple comparison:

360->340km: 41477 = 2.1mons; 37280 = 4.8mons
340->320km: 41477 = 2.0mons; 37280 = 4.2mons

I guess that's indication of 37820's BC is ~2.2 times of 41477.

For 41477, 320->260km is 2.2mons

If everything goes liner, it will take 37820 4~5mons to reach 260km, which place the timing to mid-Jan~mid-Feb,2018.

I'm really curious to see how accurate that goes.


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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #808 on: 09/10/2017 09:35 am »
When I presented my Tiangong 1 paper at the Sino-Russian Technical Forum of the British Interplanetary Society on May 21, 2016 I gave "rough estimate for decay: second quarter of 2018".
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #809 on: 09/10/2017 01:59 pm »
When I presented my Tiangong 1 paper at the Sino-Russian Technical Forum of the British Interplanetary Society on May 21, 2016 I gave "rough estimate for decay: second quarter of 2018".
In my world the first question after that would be... FY or CY? ;ppp

But seriously, do you see current behavior fit to your prediction?

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #810 on: 09/10/2017 04:20 pm »
When I presented my Tiangong 1 paper at the Sino-Russian Technical Forum of the British Interplanetary Society on May 21, 2016 I gave "rough estimate for decay: second quarter of 2018".
In my world the first question after that would be... FY or CY? ;ppp
But seriously, do you see current behavior fit to your prediction?
Titus

I simply averaged out the short-term irregularities and used a "best fit" curve based upon the decay rate from December 2015 (the last manoeuvre) to May 2016.
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #811 on: 09/10/2017 11:41 pm »
Found something interesting to read, not directly related to Tiangong1, but about Skylab deorbit story.
http://www.spaceref.com/iss/skylab.deorbit.html

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #812 on: 09/14/2017 07:24 pm »
This morning pass of Tiangong 1  at 10:28 UT September 14,2017 on a max pass of 86 degrees. Three video clips shot between  70 degrees to  around 30 degrees elevation with phase angles ranging  from 58 degrees to 134 degrees. Distances ranged from 334.4 Kms  to around 590.9 Kms. Also observed it visually Tiangong 1 shows zero signs of any tumble.

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #813 on: 09/18/2017 05:39 pm »
http://www.newsweek.com/china-tiangong-1-out-control-space-station-crash-earth-2018-666836?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo
The prediction made by Aerospace Corporation in this article is pretty much the prediction some of us in the Amateur satellite observing community made back in early 2016 to the window of reentry! Once again unless we see Tiangong 1 start to tumble this window for reentry still stands.
Let get's some facts straight Tiangong 1 doesn't orbit over 2/3 of the Earth Ocean it goes no more than 42 degrees North or South of the Equator. This leaves 48 degrees North or South of the Equator the Space Station never passes over.
Yep, its orbit does take it over some of the most populated areas on the planet.
So we are going to pony up now with our prediction of odds of damage or casualties on the ground. Believe the odds come down to if the space station is still in a roll or what degree of tumble the space station has at reentry. So going to give a range at 1 in 2600 to a 1 in 3100 chances of damage or casualties on the ground.

Now some of the numbers on the amount of debris making it to the ground, given by some experts, have ranged in 40 to 80 pounds ranging up to 200 to 300 pounds. We believe, we know we are going to take a beating on this one, that the debris will be in an order of a little less than 1 metric ton or somewhere near or around 2000 pounds.
Let the games begin with the media and the "Experts"! ;D ;) :)
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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #814 on: 09/25/2017 02:58 pm »
Nodes2 (41477) is now deorbited, so it give a pretty good background info to compare with Tiangong1 (37820).
I will try to keep this up-to-date monthly update so we have better comparison.

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #815 on: 10/17/2017 03:34 am »
Article in the Guardian about the TG-1 reentry featuring some quotes from jcm.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #816 on: 10/23/2017 02:57 pm »
Monthly update on my tracking graph

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #818 on: 11/02/2017 11:07 am »
Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1 this morning at 11:26 UT,11-02-2017 on a high 89° pass. Shot this 30-second time exposure with our point and shot camera as Tiangong 1 came out of the earth's shadow and running through the constellation of Gemini. Still in a slow roll not sign of tumbling. Also observed it with our 15x70 binocular and did not detect any tumble. Enjoy! Regards Thomas

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Re: LIVE: TianGong-1 JSLC CZ-2F (T1) launch September 29, 2011
« Reply #819 on: 11/06/2017 02:35 pm »
ESA Joins Reentry Campaign

6 November 2017
ESA experts will host an international campaign to monitor the reentry of a spacecraft expected early next year.

Early next year, an uncrewed Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life, during which most of the craft burn should up.

ESA will host a test campaign to follow the reentry, which will be conducted by the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).

IADC comprises space debris and other experts from 13 space agencies/organisations, including NASA, ESA, European national space agencies, JAXA, ISRO, KARI, Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration.

IADC members will use this event to conduct their annual reentry test campaign, during which participants will pool their predictions of the time window, as well as their respective tracking datasets obtained from radar and other sources. The aim is to cross-verify, cross-analyse and improve the prediction accuracy for all members.

ESA will act as host and administrator for the campaign, as it has done for the twenty previous IADC test campaigns since 1998. A special case for ESA was the campaign in 2013 during the uncontrolled reentry of ESA’s own GOCE satellite.

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The Tiangong-1 spacecraft is 12 m long with a diameter of 3.3 m and had a launch mass of 8506 kg. It has been unoccupied since 2013 and there has been no contact with it since 2016.

The craft is now at about 300 km altitude in an orbit that will inevitably decay sometime between January and March 2018, when it will make an uncontrolled reentry.

“Owing to the geometry of the station’s orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43ºN or further south than 43ºS,” says Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office.

“This means that reentry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example.”

“The date, time and geographic footprint of the reentry can only be predicted with large uncertainties. Even shortly before reentry, only a very large time and geographical window can be estimated.”

Owing to the station’s mass and construction materials, there is a possibility that some portions of it will survive and reach the surface.

In the history of spaceflight, no casualties due to falling space debris have ever been confirmed.

ESA’s Space Debris Office, based at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, will concurrently conduct an international expert workshop in the week of 28 February, focusing on reentry predictions and atmospheric break-up studies, enabling experts to share their latest findings and research in these and related topics.

Separate from the IADC campaign, ESA will regularly update ESA Member State civil authorities with detailed information on the reentry, as it does during all such events.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Space_Debris/ESA_joins_reentry_campaign

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