{"id":604,"date":"2007-04-27T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2007-04-27T21:28:24","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T02:28:24","slug":"mast-update-request-for-big-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"MAST Update &#8211; Request for Big Eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"205\" src=\"\/media\/MASTLogo.jpg\"  height=\"156\" style=\"width: 205px; height: 156px\" \/>Mixed (but mostly positive) results for the MAST mission so far.\u00a0 Still no contact with Ted (Hey!\u00a0 I&#8217;m here \ud83d\ude42 ), but they continue to have good contact with Gadget.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell for sure from their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tethers.com\/MAST_Blog.html\">blog<\/a>, but it looks like they think the tether is deployed, but need verification of this.\u00a0 Consequently, if you have a telescope and clear skies, they would love to have you take a look and report to them what you see.<\/p>\n<p>You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavens-above.com\">heavens-above<\/a> and get the coordinates for their satellite (it&#8217;s object 31126 in their database).\u00a0 On the MAST site, they also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tethers.com\/MAST_Tracking.html\">cool map<\/a> showing where the satellite is at the moment.\u00a0 Just a few minutes ago, it came fairly close to passing overhead of the Chicago area.\u00a0 If these &amp;(^%)&amp;^$U# clouds would ever clear, I might be able to spot it.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I bought my son a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meade.com\/etx\/etx80.html\">Meade ETX-80<\/a>\u00a0for his birthday.\u00a0 It has\u00a0go-to\u00a0capability so, theoretically, we should just be able to update the coordinate database and find MAST.\u00a0 But, we&#8217;ve had nothing but rain and clouds here for the past few days.\u00a0 This weekend it is supposed to clear up and then maybe I can get a look.\u00a0 I think it would be an awesome sight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed (but mostly positive) results for the MAST mission so far.\u00a0 Still no contact with Ted (Hey!\u00a0 I&#8217;m here \ud83d\ude42 ), but they continue to have good contact with Gadget.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t tell for sure from their blog, but it looks like they think the tether is deployed, but need verification of this.\u00a0 Consequently, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}