Who are Novosti Kosmonavtiki?
There are computers onboard ISS attached to this transceiver for the purpose of facilitating digital transmission modes. I'm fairly certain, though not positive, that they are using QPSK as a digital mode, so it should be trivial to initiate communication to the spacecraft from ISS provided that it is visible and that ISS could reorient their antenna to track the spacecraft.
Thank you to Chris for this excellent forum. I am reading current updates on a Russian Mars mission, thanks to the generosity of Svetoslav, Vladi (and others!), all while sitting at my desk in the middle of the United States. It is amazing.All the best wishes to the engineers trying to recover the mission!
The inevitable has happened. People have started talking about being fired and resignations... http://interfax.ru/politics/news.asp?id=216291According to an anonymous expert in the space industry the failure with Phobos-Grunt unties the hands of the leadership of the space industry to reform it. Also, many people may lose their jobs. Another article, on RIA Novosti, mentions that astronomers will try to evaluate the status of the spacecraft
USAF still maintains the Maui Optical Station? Surely its telescope could (at a minimum) determine whether FG is tumbling or stabilized, the deployment status of the solar panels, etc?
Quote from: sdsds on 11/10/2011 05:45 pmUSAF still maintains the Maui Optical Station? Surely its telescope could (at a minimum) determine whether FG is tumbling or stabilized, the deployment status of the solar panels, etc?There are far better assets available for that purpose.EXTREMELY unlikely that they would be tasked to look at this mission in a publicly available way.
Another article, on RIA Novosti, mentions that astronomers will try to evaluate the status of the spacecraft
But were you intending to say it is unlikely the Maui telescope would be used for FG? There are many fewer obstacles that would make Maui-derived imagery unavailable to the Russian space agency or to the general public. And the Maui telescope is likely sufficient for this purpose, as the attached image of STS-107 demonstrates....
Does the X-37B have any relay capability? I know that's classified but just throwing it out there.