The other point is that the second stage (upper stage?) should also re-enter somewhere close. That object can be expected to breakup and have multiple pieces burning up so that may increase the odds that something will be seen. It would be neat to be on the aircraft that is supposed to take temperature readings of the capsule. Ron Lee > At the beginning of the blackout (plasma heating starts) the vehicle will > be visible above a 10° elevation angle for up to 350 nmi. As it decends > toward chute deployments of course this distance become much smaller. It > will be daylight during the reentry, so I'm unsure how 'visible' it will > be. > Daryl _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Wed Dec 03 2014 - 13:09:05 UTC
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