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Originally Posted by torana68
Canberra times are quoting a Chinese agency as saying it’s down , Heavens Above shows it still up?? No photos anywhere yet?
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The whole exercise has been a bit frustrating over the last 48 hours to be honest.
I know Heavens Above is very accurate from years of using it.
But for rapidly decaying objects it is just a pain in the a.. to use.
The 2 line elements change so swiftly that another source is needed.
So you go to the 'live tracking' servers that are using 'tracking' data for almost live updates,
then they clog up with too many users logging in at crunch time
It would be great with all of the technology we have available for just the
average punter to log in and watch an almost live telemetry feed right down to the end.
Sometimes I have been lucky. I watched a few shuttle landings right down to the tarmac.
But I suppose we aren't ever going to get military spec telemetry right to the second/metre are we.
They don't give away their capabilities to the world that freely
But, it begs the question, why with a near global coverage of satellites
that can detect/ track and rapidly update any object in the airspace up to several hundred kms,
for the very purpose of detecting launches and reentry of unfriendlys.....can't they say where MH370 went.
Steve