Lift-off is scheduled for 2006 Jul 04 at 18:37:55 UTC. Spaceflight Now reports that the weather forecast is for a 60 percent probability of GO for launch: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts121/status.html NASA's estimated elements are available at the following URL. They take into account all planned manoeuvres, and are revised throughout the mission, as required. http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orb it/SHUTTLE/SVPOST.html For quick reference, I have extracted the elsets from MECO through docking. 1. Jul 04, 18:48:24 UTC (MECO) - Jul 04, 19:16:27 UTC 1 99999U 06185.78361111 .01000000 00000-0 35709-6 0 07 2 99999 51.6300 97.3705 0133087 347.3299 70.5036 16.49322810 09 NOTE: NASA's MECO 2-line elset is erroneous; so I generated the above by converting NASA's True of Day Rotating (TDR) [aka Earth-Fixed Greenwich (EFG)] Cartesian state vector to SGP4, using Ken Ernandes' VEC2TLE program, and added realistic decay terms for the brief duration of existence of the orbit. Our web site has a link to Ken's program: http://www.satobs.org/orbsoft.html#Other 2. Jul 04, 19:16:27 - Jul 05, 10:43:40 UTC 1 99999U 06185.83481559 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9015 2 99999 51.6298 97.0838 0054912 341.1886 18.7277 16.30517194 26 3. Jul 05, 10:43:40 UTC - Jul 05, 10:48:10 UTC 1 99999U 06186.44742686 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9025 2 99999 51.6324 93.6688 0083791 348.1321 11.7892 16.23859786 124 4. Jul 05, 10:48:10 UTC - Jul 05, 21:45:15 UTC 1 99999U 06186.50896312 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9039 2 99999 51.6294 93.3272 0083398 348.4142 11.5125 16.23975955 138 5. Jul 05, 21:45:15 UTC - Jul 06, 10:33:44 UTC 1 99999U 06186.94036227 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9049 2 99999 51.6297 90.9461 0060319 152.5497 207.8884 15.91421179 207 6. Jul 06, 10:33:44 UTC - Jul 06, 12:04:57 UTC 1 99999U 06187.44268566 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9059 2 99999 51.6293 88.3033 0010493 91.9022 268.3345 15.78341149 282 7. Jul 06, 12:04:57 UTC - Jul 06, 13:23:03 UTC 1 99999U 06187.50599876 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9068 2 99999 51.6309 87.9761 0010612 53.1699 307.0437 15.76682306 291 8. Jul 06, 13:23:03 UTC - Jul 06, 13:36:03 UTC 1 99999U 06187.56937934 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9076 2 99999 51.6312 87.6491 0009685 45.1071 315.0878 15.76324371 300 9. Jul 06, 13:36:03 UTC (nearly docked to ISS) 1 99999U 06187.56937915 .00014500 00000-0 95600-4 0 9086 2 99999 51.6315 87.6491 0010677 43.3240 316.8761 15.76141339 305 Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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