Determining the Altitude of Iridium Flares

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...9917064f&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Trigonometry, Iridium Network, Communication Satellites, Specular Reflection, Tangents, Azimuth, Altitude, Magnitude, Elevation Angle

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Iridium flares have nothing to do with the element iridium. Iridium is also the name of a telecommunications company that has been launching satellites into low orbits around the Earth. These satellites are being used for a new type of wireless phone and paging service. Flares have been observed coming from these satellites. These flares have the potential, especially when the full fleet of satellites is in orbit, to disrupt astronomical observations. The paper reviews using simple trigonometry how to calculate the altitude of one of these satellites.

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