HOUSTON - A cargo ship with more than two tons of supplies for the International Space Station will launch Friday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kotov and Suni Williams will receive the shipment of food, fuel and supplies on Tuesday, May 15.

NASA TV will not broadcast the launch of the unpiloted Progress 25 spacecraft but will broadcast its arrival at the International Space Station. NASA TV coverage will begin at 11:30 p.m. CDT (04:30 UTC), May 14. The Progress is scheduled to dock automatically to the Zvezda Service Module of the station at 12:10 a.m (05:10 UTC).

Could someone please tell me if Suni is just making contact with chosen schools or is it possible

to hear her speaking with other "hams" ?

Thanks
Dave

Hi,

This evening whilst watching the ISS passing over South Africa from 16:58 UTC, visability brightness
at familiar normal level - until suddenly at 17:00 UTC a brilliant flash lasting about 1-2 seconds. WOW!
I guess at least -10m.

Calculations show, at the time this occured:
Azimuth to ISS very close to Azimuth to Sun.
Elevation to ISS very close to -Elevation to Sun (From my location).

If someone wants to run the math, my grid is KG44BD.

Has anybody else seen this?

Is it possible to run predictions when to watch out for this - would of course depend on ISS attitude and