Follow Up on USNA Shoestring Satellite

NotFabio writes: "I received this e-mail from the USNA satellite team. Seems the sattelite is not only still functioning, but they plan to do a test tonight. If you're out looking at the leonids, try to spot it if you can. They're kind of hopeful it will be spotted somewhere. They plan to turn on the 50 onboard Red LEDS for 5 minutes beginning at 9:35PM Eastern Standard Time on Saturday night, when the satellite will be overhead at New Orleans. It should pass over Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Lake Erie, Toronto and finally over northern Canada at 9:41 PM. Apparently there's no attitude control, so they don't know exactly where the thing will point, meaning anyone on the eastern half of the US and Canada has a chance of spotting it."