[amsat-bb] Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite

2012-04-08 Thread Gregory Beat
Photos were released today of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, planned to be launched from North Korea later this week. The rectangular box satellite appears to have a ~ 400 MHz 1/4 wave antenna on same side as sensors, and possibly Earth Observation (EO) camera. I have seen no data on frequenci

[amsat-bb] Prototype Prediction web service

2012-04-08 Thread David A. B. Johnson
Hi, Further development this afternoon... http://websat.g4dpz.cloudbees.net/api/passes/25544/locator/io82xl/amsl/200/future/6 note the URI change to /passes the value 6 being the number of hours ahead yeilds: 202 2012-04-08T21:07:41.020Z 81 14.6 2012-04-08T20:58:31.020Z 2012-04-08T21:03:01.

[amsat-bb] Prototype Prediction web service

2012-04-08 Thread David A. B. Johnson
Hi, I'm doing some work with RESTful web services and have thrown together a prediction service that generates XML. For a URL of: http://websat.g4dpz.cloudbees.net/api/position/25544 (the ISS catalogue number) you get: 392 0.0 25544 0.0 8.3 263.4 327 adding locator and a