Archive - Nov 19, 2002 - Story
ANDE Telemetry / Command / Communications Project
ANDE stands for Atmospheric Neutral Drag Experiment and is a 19" sphere with optical corner reflectors for precise orbit determination. The Naval Academy is building the Telemetry and command/communications payload for ANDE similar to what it is flying on the PCsat mission as both a means to transmit spacecraft Telemetry to the ground and to augment the interest of students worldwide by letting them capture telemetry and communicate via the satellite.
It has no solar power, so when the 7000 Watt Hours of batteries (112 Lithiums) die then it too will die (+- 700 days)
ISS a SpaceShip Among Meteors
NASA Science News for November 18, 2002
With millions of people watching, the International Space Station will glide over North America during the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.