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The TacSat-2 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 5th February, 2011 @ 19:47 GMT  ±11 hours.

Period:       88.75 minutes
Inclination: 40°
Apogee:     218 km
Perigee:     207 km
Revolution Number: 23605  
Predicted Location:  12.7°S, 178.5°E


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The TacSat-2 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 5th February, 2011 @ 20:17 GMT  ±48 hours.

Period:       89.10 minutes
Inclination: 40°
Apogee:     236 km
Perigee:     224 km
Revolution Number: 23604   
Predicted Location:  21.4°S, 307.7°E

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The TacSat-2 satellite is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th January, 2011 @ --:-- GMT  ±-- hours.

TLE Data
TACSAT 2
1 29653U 06058A   11024.68717052  .00418231  88954-4  47926-3 0  4519
2 29653 040.0018 136.4525 0011036 040.4648 319.7020 16.07975680234092

Period:       89.61 minutes
Inclination: 40°
Apogee:     263 km
Perigee:     248 km
Revolution Number: -   
Predicted Location:  -

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The TacSat-2 satellite that was launched on the 16th December, 2006, from the from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th January, 2011 @ --:-- GMT  ±-- hours.

TLE Data
TACSAT 2
1 29653U 06058A   11020.77104566  .00368628  66864-4  51246-3 0  4414
2 29653 040.0024 162.5160 0011241 010.8219 349.2772 16.04910206233469

Period:       89.73 minutes
Inclination: 40°
Apogee:     269 km
Perigee:     254 km
Revolution Number: -   
Predicted Location:  -

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TLE Data
TACSAT 2
1 29653U 06058A   11010.35916587  .00285530  39016-4  57005-3 0  4149
2 29653 039.9995 231.3376 0013697 296.8540 063.0676 15.98753763231790
1 29653U 06058A   11009.92192175 +.00283958 +38539-4 +57537-3 0 04139
2 29653 040.0003 234.2166 0013152 290.4107 069.5318 15.98508228231728
1 29653U 06058A   11010.04685551  .00284969  38807-4  57510-3 0  4131
2 29653 040.0004 233.3947 0013120 291.1108 068.8316 15.98579711231747
1 29653U 06058A   11009.85945238  .00284633  38685-4  57822-3 0  4126
2 29653 040.0018 234.6307 0012626 291.9810 067.9648 15.98476429231711
1 29653U 06058A   11009.35965439  .00278940  37248-4  57606-3 0  4113
2 29653 040.0019 237.9179 0012624 287.8579 072.0919 15.98187544231635


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The U.S. Air Force has started gathering imagery with TacSat-2, the first in a planned series intended to demonstrate the ability to deploy tactically responsive, space-based capabilities on short notice.
The Air Force launched TacSat-2, which features a platform built by Microsat Systems, Littleton, Colo., aboard a Minotaur rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corp., Dulles, Va., from Wallops Island, Va., last December. TacSat-2 was propelled into a circular orbit approximately 255 miles above the earth. The satellite, housed in a shroud atop the rocket, was released into space between 100,000 and 150,000 feet altitude and shared the brief ride into the cosmos with NASA's GeneSat-1.

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A very small NASA satellite has proven that scientists can quickly design and launch a new class of inexpensive spacecraft -- and conduct significant science.
The 5-kilogram GeneSat-1, carrying bacteria inside a miniature laboratory, was launched on Dec. 16, 2006. It was a secondary payload on an Air Force four-stage Minotaur 1 rocket that delivered the Air Force TacSat 2 satellite to orbit. GeneSat-1 began to transmit data on its first pass over the mission's California ground station. Scientists still receive data from the satellite regularly.

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Successfully launched onboard a Minotaur I rocket, the TacSat-2 spacecraft has commenced operations on a planned six to 12-month experimental mission Dec. 16 from the NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility near Wallops Island, Va.
Within minutes after leaving the launch pad, the micro satellite, managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., entered into a circular orbit at a 40-degree inclination approximately 255 miles above the Earth.

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TLE Data

TacSat2
1 29653U 06058A   06350.99910588  .00033022  00000-0  58721-3 0    28
2 29653 040.0116 074.6585 0006229 162.5501 197.5512 15.49396203    61



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Dozens of people called officials and WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Friday evening describing bright lights and trails of light in the eastern skies around Pittsburgh.
The National Weather Service said they thought what people saw was remnants of the Gemini Meteor Shower from earlier in the week.
NASA, however, said the sighting was nothing extraterrestrial, but that of a rocket launched from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 7 a.m.

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