Thanks Jonathan,
I knew about the OMS Assist, but I didn't know they were using it
regularly for ISS flights. It's been a while since the last time I heard of
it being used. I was trying to discern a difference in the image of the
shuttle from the OMS firing, but couldn't see one. I figured the OMS is very
much fainter than the main engines, but was hoping with a wee bit of
resolution that it might be visible, but there were pretty far down range at
that point and certainly the 3 SSMEs were merged into a triangular blob at
that point already too.
Jim.
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu wrote:
>
> Jim,
> The "OMS Assist" burn was introduced a few years ago, and just
> gives them a little extra payload for these heavy station missions.
> I'm sure others will have more details.
> - Jonathan McDowell
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