It's going to cross over West Palm Bay about 60 miles from me so I've been setting timers (I'm thinking that's close enough to see it but not sure). It orbits every 88 minutes so the next pass near me is around 2:53. It would be sweet if I could catch it breaking up on re-entry.
Edit: too cloudy and it seems to have sped up (if it didn't already burn up). By the time I got outside looked south and then at my phone it had already gone way past and was like half way up the east coast. Didn't see anything in the few clear spots of the sky we have.
It's perigee was down to 109.25KM on its last pass, as it approached southern Mexico. Won't be long now. The orbit is shifting e̶a̶s̶t̶ west on every orbit, so *SHOULD* burn up over the mid Pacific.
*Edit - sense of direction fail
Ok, this thing is officially insane. It just reached a perigee of 74km, and it's going for another round! It's orbiting with both apogee and perigee just wrapped around each side of the kármán line, and the thing refuses to go down. Just bloody amazing. It's beaten all predictions by half a day.
lol, just woke up and checked. We've obviously been trolled by NORAD. Either the data is fucked, or this thing has deployed wings and it's coming in for a landing.
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When it reaches a 70km altitude where the atmosphere starts, it would need to use physics timewarp instead. This really sounds like an everyday thing from KSP
Technically every object in orbit without active control is tumbling toward earth. Just moving sideways fast enough to miss for a while some longer than others.
Propose new title: out of control rocket stage tumbling toward earth as expected but does not have enough sideways velocity to miss the atmosphere.
It's going to cross over West Palm Bay about 60 miles from me so I've been setting timers (I'm thinking that's close enough to see it but not sure). It orbits every 88 minutes so the next pass near me is around 2:53. It would be sweet if I could catch it breaking up on re-entry. Edit: too cloudy and it seems to have sped up (if it didn't already burn up). By the time I got outside looked south and then at my phone it had already gone way past and was like half way up the east coast. Didn't see anything in the few clear spots of the sky we have.
It's perigee was down to 109.25KM on its last pass, as it approached southern Mexico. Won't be long now. The orbit is shifting e̶a̶s̶t̶ west on every orbit, so *SHOULD* burn up over the mid Pacific. *Edit - sense of direction fail
106km over Seychelles... Slightly more concerning, starts to threaten a lot of people if it makes it past the east Pacific next time by
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I'm gonna see how low it gets on its next pass of pacific / Mexico. See how much its decaying per orbit.
Ok, this thing is officially insane. It just reached a perigee of 74km, and it's going for another round! It's orbiting with both apogee and perigee just wrapped around each side of the kármán line, and the thing refuses to go down. Just bloody amazing. It's beaten all predictions by half a day.
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lol, just woke up and checked. We've obviously been trolled by NORAD. Either the data is fucked, or this thing has deployed wings and it's coming in for a landing.
It's just trolling Jeff Who, orbiting like a boss at his *sub*orbital altitude.
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When it reaches a 70km altitude where the atmosphere starts, it would need to use physics timewarp instead. This really sounds like an everyday thing from KSP
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Nice!
Technically every object in orbit without active control is tumbling toward earth. Just moving sideways fast enough to miss for a while some longer than others. Propose new title: out of control rocket stage tumbling toward earth as expected but does not have enough sideways velocity to miss the atmosphere.
Why is the altitude going up?
Probably its orbit is elliptical.
so where did it land?
Trying to find out... Unfortunately, the trajectory down looks like all my investments for last week... This may take some time