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Watch HTV-5 Chase the International Space Station From Your Backyard
LIFTOFF! JAXA’s H-IIB rocket departs Tanegashima Space Center in a dramatic night shot. Image credit: JAXA/NASA TV
It’s away… and the hunt is on. The Japanese Space Agency’s H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori automated cargo spacecraft rocketed out of the Tanegashima Space Center today, headed for the ISS.
Loaded with over 6,000 kilograms of experiments and supplies, HTV-5 is on a five day odyssey that you can follow from your backyard, starting tonight. Kounotori stands for ‘white stork,’ or the purveyor of joyful things in Japanese, and in this instance, the name is appropriate, as the HTV-5 is delivering much needed supplies to the International Space Station.(…)
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It’s also helpful for predicting and viewing Iridium flares.
Example of information available, CUSTOMIZABLE to your precise longitude, latitude, and altitude. In this way, you can specify you want sighting information for when you go camping in remote wilderness or simply driving to a mountaintop for better viewing (can also simply input nearest city, state and obtain less precise sighting information).
10-day predictions for satellites of special interest
ISS
OTV 4
Tiangong 1
N. Korean satellite
Hubble Space Telescope
Envisat
Satellite database
Daily predictions for brighter satellites
Iridium Flares
Spacecraft escaping the Solar System
Amateur Radio Satellites – All Passes
Not shown above but also provided are data on comets, planets, and other astronomical phenomena.