What's up with Heavens Above?

Has anyone else noticed Heavens Above has been a little bit lazy lately about making predictions for the ISS passes?

According to HA the last ISS pass visible from Ireland was on 19 Aug, yet Astronomy Ireland have been sending e-mails to say that the ISS, with Endeavour chasing it were visible last night. And they have had reports of people observing it to confirm that. They also say that the ISS will be visible tonight. Also, HA mysteriously had no prediction for 18 Aug.

I am usually one of the first people to give out about AI charging for this information, and to sing HA's praises. But lately it appears that AI have gone to the bother of working out the most up to date orbital parameters for themselves.

Just my own general observations.

*edited for spelling

From what I hear HA is updated and run by just one guy!?
I'm a little bummed out now that you say we could have seen the double passes, they make for a nice sight and a cool photo.

There are a few other sat track sites out there...
I guess we should use them also as a back up.

Cheers for the heads up.

What are the other sites that are available?

I also noticed this on Friday as per the post I put up.

Curious... NASA arn't giving a pass tonight in Dublin for either ISS or Shuttle.

www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sighti...vaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html

From a quick check NASA and HA seem to be in agreement.

[edit: Last pass was on the 19th according to NASA also]

spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/elements/index.html

has the elements. Perhaps someone can plug these into starry night or something and see what that says.

The Shuttle touched down about 15:30hrs Irish Time anyway...