The shuttle got hammered by golf ball sized hail and will not be launching as originally scheduled. "We no not believe we can make March launch window for Atlantis. We are looking at a late April launch - following Soyuz departure from ISS on 20 April". That window would extend through the end of May when beta angles become an issue that would prevent a launch." http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.nl.html?id=1198 Maybe they will miss the FengYun 1C debris that they would have encountered otherwise. Tom Iowa USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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