Björn Gimle had written to me to request that I post the altitudes, lats and
longs,
(or coordinates that can be converted to those), for Monday's Minotaur I
launch, then
other observation locations can benefit (using SkyMap trajectory mode).
Here is some data which may be of some help:
Event MET Lat. Long. Alt.
-------- ------- ------- --------
-------
S1 SEP/S2 IGN 61.34 37.78 -75.28 34.68
S2 SEP 133.37 37.50 -74.06 129.53
S3 IGN 135.47 37.49 -74.01 132.07
S3 BURNOUT 208.87 36.78 -71.16 220.11
S4 IGN 472.04 32.26 -57.97 415.92
S4 BURNOUT 540.24 30.74 -54.23 419.26
MET = Mission Elapsed Time in seconds
Alt. = Altitude in kilometers
At the Stage 3 ignition, the altitude will be equal to 82.05 statute miles.
This means that at that point, the altitude of the rocket should enable
it to be seen for a radius of 868.84 statute miles from the point of
S3 ignition. This would -- in theory -- allow visibility of the rocket from
southern Maine south to northeastern Florida and as far west as
eastern Kentucky.
My thanks again to Ralph McConahy for providing the data concerning the
Major Mission Events for the Minotaur TacSat-2 launch.
-- joe rao
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