FYI, regarding the sun shades released from the ISS yesterday, Bill Harwood says: The flight director said each sun shade - both were located on the aft side of the P3 truss segment - was about the size of a king-size bed sheet. They were called XPOP sun shades and in the station's current and future attitude, they were not needed; in fact, they could have made things get too cold. Anyway, they were folded and cinched and then just thrown overboard at roughly 0.1 feet per second to aft, starboard and slightly nadir. He said they would burn up in about 20 days. For what it's worth. Bill Bard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 09 2007 - 10:27:27 EST