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Originally Posted by MattMarriott
Explicit answer:
---- These are hoaxes as explicitly mentioned
1a. Space Shuttle
1b. ISS
---- These are not hoaxes
2. Other satellites (communications, sensing, imaging, astronomy)
3. Commercial Earth-imaging satellites
4. Commercial communications satellites
5. Tracking (e.g., GPS) satellites
---- These are hoaxes, as defined by the Luna 1 line:
6. Spacecraft in lunar orbit (e.g., Selene, just launched by the Japanese).
7. Spacecraft in Sun-observing orbits (e.g., SOHO, Ulysses).
8. Spacecraft orbiting Mars/Jupiter/Saturn (e.g., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).
9. Spacecraft on interstellar trajectories (Pioneer 10/11, Voyager 1/2).
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Thank you for giving us a more specific claim. Here is direct proof of the space station as photographed by my telescope as it tracked the station going over my head on June 25th, 2007.
For those who can view youtube videos, here's a video of the pass, this image is just one frame of that video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=An4kwPUM66E
Another shot I took of the space station using a b/w camera while it was passing more directly overhead, hence closer. Taken a year before on June 17th, 2006.
The station always looks exactly as it should, you can visibly see it being constructed in orbit over time. I'm just a private citizen, not a conspirator, so how is it that I'm able to see the space station on orbit every time my computer tells me that it should be visible?